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Obama Demands Unconditional Release Of Suu Kyi; Blasts "Show Trial"
May 27, 2009 7:02 a.m. EST
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Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for the immediate and unconditional release of Burmese pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, calling the charges against her "spurious" and her ongoing case a "show trial."
Suu Kyi is currently at Insein Prison following her arrest last week. She pleaded not guilty last Friday for allegedly violating the terms of her house arrest when an American visited her home in Yangon.
Critics claim that Myanmar officials are using the charges, which carry a five year sentence, as a pretext to keep Suu Kyi detained until elections next year. She is widely expected to be found guilty.
In a statement, Obama strongly condemned Suu Kyi's detention and reminded Myanmar officials that the United Nations had declared her six-year house arrest as "arbitrary, unjustified."
"Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention, isolation, and show trial based on spurious charges cast serious doubt on the Burmese regime's willingness to be a responsible member of the international community," he added. "It is time for the Burmese government to drop all charges against Aung San Suu Kyi and unconditionally release her and her fellow political prisoners."
A 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Suu Kyi is the head of the National League for Democracy, which has been a government-in-exile since winning a majority of votes in the 1990 national elections. Myanmar, also known as Burma has been governed by a military junta since 1962.
She has been detained for a total of 13 years. Her house arrest, which begain in 2003, expired on Tuesday, the same day of her testimony about the visit of an American to her lakeside home earlier this month.
A man named John William Yeattaw was arrested in early hours of May 6 while he was swimming in the Inya Lake "with the help of a 5-liter drinking water bottle," according to the government-owned newspaper New Light of Myanmar. Yeattaw told authorities that he had arrived in Yangon on a tourist visa, and had secretly stayed in Suu Kyi's compound for two days.
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