Aung San Suu Kyi’s jail term has been extended to seven years, making it thirty-three years in total by the Myanmar’s Military Court.
Aung San Suu Kyi- Myanmar’s Former Elected Leader
The Burmese statesman, delegate, and 1991’s Nobel Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was house arrested after a military outbreak coup in February 2021. Since then, she was sentenced to 18 months of trial on a total of nineteen charges. Today the military court has ordered an extension of seven years of imprisonment.
She was sentenced on the final five charges she was accused of. The court found her guilty of corruption and fourteen different directions. The charges were the legal case of not obeying decrees in renting a helicopter for a government minister, breaching covid public safety protocols severally and risking human rights over health.
The Charges Against Aung San Suu Kyi
Previously, Suu Kyi was charged with multiple offences like electoral fraud and bribery. However, she has denied all the charges against her. According to her lawyers, she did not do it wishfully; instead, she was politically motivated.
During the trials, she was kept in isolated custody at a prison in Naypyidaw. The trials were also taken behind closed doors with less media involvement. Only some limited details and mandates were charged to her lawyers.
Myanmar has been destroyed economically since the mandatory army intervention to stop Suu Kyi from forming any new government. However, three months later, her party was reelected in the election against the military-protected opposition. The military coup had paralyzed the nation’s everyday situation. Since then, the right groups have repeatedly expressed their concerns about punishing the pro-democracy activists.
The Reaction Of Global Organisations To Aung San Suu Kyi’s Extended Term
According to the deputy Asia Director for Human Rights Watch, The convictions aimed at Suu Kyi were ultimate. To discredit her NLD (National League for Democracy) party’s win in the election of November 2020, she was convicted.
From start to finish, he added that the Junta government had grabbed all that cases could be made against Suu Kyi because the Country’s kangaroo court would come back with everything the military wanted.
Last week, after the first resolution passed on the Southeast Asian Country, the UNSC (United Nations Security Council) contacted the Military Junta. The demand was to liberate all the political captives, including Suu Kyi and former president Win Myint.
Since the military coup, freedom and rights have worsened primarily in the previous two years. State enactments have been yielded to their houses, and thousands of individuals have been captured and injured while opposing the military rule.
In November, the intense fuss of the Junta at the ASEAN summit ( Association of Southeast Asian Nations) made them consider a pardon. The Junta discharged approximately six thousand prisoners under clemency, including a retired British diplomat, an Australian economist and a Japanese newsperson.
Junta Government Mayanmar- Fall Of Aung San Suu Kyi
Direct military rule was set in Burma in 1962 and the constitutional dictatorship stage started from 1974 to 1988. The military Junta Government was constitutionally disbanded in 2011 under the 2010 general election and formed a civilian government.
But in 2021, a military coup began in Mayanmar when National League for Democracy (NLD) was displaced by the Myanmar military under Tatmadaw. Currently, Min Aung Hlaing is the chief of the Junta and the commander-in-chief of the defence section. Also, he affirmed himself as the Prime Minister of the Country and stays the chairman of SAC.
