BREAKING NEWS!!! O-M-G... Burmese Democracy Icon Aung San Suu Kyi Has Been Found GUILTY And Will Remain Confined For Another 18 MONTHS!

In the 1990 general election, Aung San Suu Kyi won the right to be Prime Minister by a landslide earned 394 of 492 seats. The Burmese military junta REFUSED the election results! The results were immediately nullified, and the military refused to hand over power. She has remained under house arrest ever since! The military has dominated the Burmese government since General Ne Win led a coup in 1962 that toppled the civilian government of U Nu. Burma remains under the tight control of the military-led State Peace and Development Council.

Why isn't the UN Security Council or ASEAN responding to this INJUSTICE! All of you know that the military junta is responsible for allowing the intruder to enter her home when they were supposed to be GUARDING HER HOME while under house arrest!!! How are you going to take their word now of holding a fair and balanced democratic election next year?

Sky News
Burma's Suu Kyi Detained For Another 18 Months!
written by Peter Sharp, Asia correspondent
Tuesday August 11, 2009

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will be detained for a further 18 months after she was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest.

More than 2,000 security personnel surrounded the notorious Insein Prison as the country's military junta sentenced the Nobel peace laureate after a lengthy trial.

The 64-year-old Oxford-educated politician was initially sentenced to three years in prison but that was immediately reduced to a 18 months on the junta's orders.

She will be allowed to serve her sentence under house arrest.

The leader of the democracy movement in Burma has already spent 14 of the past 20 years in detention of one sort or another.

Ms Suu Kyi was arrested in May following a bizarre uninvited visit from eccentric American John Yettaw.

Using homemade flippers, the 53-year-old Vietnam veteran swam across Inya Lake, in the centre of capital Rangoon, to her heavily-secured home.

Yettaw said he had a vision that Ms Suu Kyi would be assassinated by "terrorists" and wanted to warn her.

But his uninvited two-day visit breached her terms of house arrest and gave the junta the perfect opportunity to jail her ahead of general elections next year.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "I am both saddened and angry at the verdict following the sham trial of Aung San Suu Kyi.

"So long as Aung San Suu Kyi and all those political opponents imprisoned in Burma remain in detention and are prevented from playing their full part in the political process, the planned elections in 2010 will have no credibility or legitimacy.

"The façade of her prosecution is made more monstrous because its real objective is to sever her bond with the people for whom she is a beacon of hope and resistance."

Yettaw was accused of immigration offences and swimming in a non-swimming area. He was jailed for seven years, including four years with hard labour.

Ms Suu Kyi was first put under house arrest after she led a failed uprising against the military junta in 1988.

Despite her incarceration, she remains a symbol of hope to Burma’s 47 million people.

The trial opened on May 18 and was seen by many as a pretext for the junta to keep Ms Suu Kyi behind bars during the looming polls.

They will be the first elections in more than 20 years and the pro-democracy leader would have played a key opposition role had she been freed.

State newspapers in Burma warned Ms Suu Kyi’s supporters not to cause trouble following the verdict and told the international community not to meddle in Burma’s affairs.