Aung San Suu Kyi taken to prison in Burma
May 14, 2009 at 10:34 am by Andisheh Nouraee in Don't Panic
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi, the astonishingly courageous and graceful Burmese democracy leader, has been re-imprisoned by Burma’s murderous military junta.
The junta has charged Suu Kyi with violating the terms of her house arrest after some guy from Missouri swam uninvited to her lakeside home.
Burmese democracy leaders say the junta is using the bizarre incident as an excuse to extend Suu Kyi’s house arrest through next year’s scheduled elections. Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the last 20 years in prison or under house arrest because she had the temerity to lead her party to victory in elections in Burma in 1990.
For more on Suu Kyi’s extraordinary heroism in opposition to brutality, click here. For more on the murderers who have imprisoned Suu Kyi, click here.
I also recommend visiting the The Burma Campaign UK for general information, including what you can do to pressure international leaders to help Suu Kyi and the Burmese people.
May 14th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Appalling. She is, as you say, an extraordinary and noble woman.
Thuggish regimes like the Burmese junta always use weird incidents like this as a pretext for imprisonment and repression. Sigh.
Just out of curiosity, Andisheh, are you familiar the strangely similar struggles of Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya? She too was elected to a position of democratic power, then driven out of parliament for acknowledging the truth about the government there: that it’s full of war criminals and warlords, and that they have the backing of the US.
At any rate, if you’re not familiar, check out this site: http://www.malalaijoya.com/index1024.htm