Nine Nobel Peace prize winners including Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have sent a letter to U.N.Secretary General Ban Ki-moon demanding his immediate intervention in the ongoing unjust trial of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar opposition democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for more than 13 years. Her detention was to end on 27th May 2009. But Burmese(now Myanmar) ruling military junta found a pretext to press fresh charges against her when an American swam across to her house on May 3rd and violated conditions of her house arrest. Suu Kyi was arrested on charges of violation along with the American man and her house care takers. She now faces fresh trial and could face up to five years of rigorous imprisonment.
The letter by laureates slams Myanmar ruling government and calls this trial a ‘mockery’. It is indeed a big mockery that a Nobel Peace Prize winner and an elected leader should spend year after year under arrest. There is an international outcry every time her house arrest is extended or she is shifted from house arrest to prison. But it is unfortunate that there has been no serious intervention by UN, ICJ and other international bodies and powerful western countries to save Burma (Myanmar) and Aung San Suu Kyi from oppressive military junta regime.
Via UPI
The tragedy of it all is that she will continue to face unjust treatment for fighting for her people. Most of the Military Juntas (like the Burmese) survive because of implicit Western support. democracy in Burma may not be what US wants, though it preaches so.