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Aung San Suu Kyi: Political Setback

While Kuwait, India and Lithuania make strides forward, Burma continues to move backward at alarming speed. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is presently standing trial on trumped-up criminal charges, ones that are basically an excuse to keep the legendary freedom fighter locked away while the ruling military junta solidifies its grip on power via elections scheduled for next year. Suu Kyi has been held under house arrest for 14 of the last 19 years and her (illegal) term of incarceration is supposed to end on May 27. The West, especially the United ...

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