What else would you expect when a strange person slips past a police barricade, swims across a lake and shows up on your property? The military junta remains as corrupt and bizarre as ever. It's hard to believe she won in a landslide election almost 20 years ago. With close friends like China, it's no wonder the junta stays in power despite losing elections and having no legitimacy. The Guardian:
Foreign governments and human rights organisations accused the regime yesterday of planning to put Suu Kyi on trial next week on charges of violating the terms of her house arrest as a pretext for keeping the winner of the last free vote in Burma, 19 years ago, in detention ahead of elections next year.
Suu Kyi, 63, faces up to five years in prison if convicted after John Yettaw swam to the property next to Lake Inya in Rangoon where the 1991 Nobel peace prize winner has been confined for 13 of the last 19 years. The latest house detention order expires in a fortnight and the opposition leader's lawyers intended to go to court to demand her release in time to lead her party in the election.
