Burmese Court and Burma’s military dictatorship did what the world and Aung San Suu Kyi herself had been speculating. They found her guilty of violating terms of previous house arrest and sentenced her to 18 more months of house arrest. She had committed ‘crime’ of giving shelter to an eccentric American. Meanwhile American John Yettaw too will have to pay heavily for his eccentricity – he has been sentenced seven years of imprisonment and hard labour.

In fact court had sentenced her to 3 years of hard labour and it was Burma’s military leader Senior General Than Shwe who commuted it into one and a half years of house arrest. Everyone had expected this too. Military had to make a show of their ‘generosity’ to the West and the world after the sham trial and the verdict.

With this ruling Burmese military dictatorship achieved what it intended. The popular Opposition leader of Burma Aung San Suu Kyi will be serving yet another sentence during the coming elections due next year. They could not have risked her taking part in the elections next year.

Yes, there has been international outrage. Britain, France and other nations within EU have decided to push for total arms embargo and other total sanctions which will directly affect military regime. Will things ever change in Burma?

Via Timesonline