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Suu Kyi to testify as Myanmar opens court again
Tue May 26, 2009 2:16am EDT
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will take the stand at her trial on Tuesday, her lawyers said, as the ruling generals tried again to justify a case that has drawn international condemnation.
The Nobel Peace laureate, who faces up to five years in jail, was set to launch her defense after prosecutors abruptly dropped their eight remaining witnesses on Monday, fuelling speculation that the trial could end within days.
Suu Kyi's house arrest order expires on Wednesday and the 63-year-old is widely expected to be found guilty on charges of violating her detention after allowing an uninvited American intruder to stay in her home.
Before she testified, the regime gave its latest justification for the trial widely condemned as a sham to keep the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader in detention during elections next year.
Police Brigadier General Myint Thein said authorities had considered freeing Suu Kyi after her detention order ran out.
But then John Yettaw, 53, swam to her home on May 4, claiming he had dreamt that her life was in danger.
Myint Thein said Suu Kyi allowed him to stay for two days, "talked to him, provided him with food and clothes." Suu Kyi says he was not invited and she told Yettaw to leave but he refused.
"These things infringed on existing law and we unavoidably and regretfully had to take legal action against her," Myint told a group of 55 diplomats and Burmese journalists.
They will be allowed to watch the trial on Tuesday, the second time the court has been opened since the trial began on May 18, but were not expected to see Suu Kyi testify.
Nyan Win, one of her lawyers, complained they were unable to prepare a defense with her. "It could be they have already written the verdict," he said.
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Suu Kyi has been incarcerated for more than 13 of the past 19 years, most of it at her Yangon home under police guard, her mail intercepted and visitors restricted.
Her spell of detention, which began on May 30, 2003, has exceeded the five years allowed under a state security law, her lawyers argue.
But Myint Thein said the authorities can hold her for another six months of house arrest because a recalculation showed she has completed only 4- years.
"They were seriously considering handling her case leniently, taking into account that she is the daughter of national leader General Aung San," he said, referring to the independence hero. Continued...
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