The desperate Burmese junta

The Burmese junta is that desperate to put Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on trial so she will not take part in the 2010 elections next year. Putting her on another five-year imprisonment will be another round of happy days for the ruling oppressive State Peace Democratic Council (SPDC).

This means the democratic movement needs to take on fresh and more dynamic moves of how to thwart this atrocious move of SPDC and its generals. While the international movement is pressing the seemingly deaf junta to release San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, other ways are being undertaken.

One current step are legal moves in the international arena to try the junta’s generals and those responsible for countless numbers of human rights violations and perpetration of crimes of inhumanity in Burma.

While this is so, read the opinion of Kyaw Zwa Moe in The Irrawaddy.

“The trial of Aung San Suu Kyi is an unofficial step in the ruling junta’s seven-step road map. It is an essential one for the generals as they look ahead to the fifth step—the upcoming election in 2010.

The generals must now see, however, that by putting Suu Kyi on trial they took one step forward and two steps back.

The regime had no alternative as it prepared for the upcoming election. For the generals, the election is not only a step towards political legitimacy, but also the apparatus with which they can legalize the role of the military within the country’s political system.

The road map has three more steps—the election, the convening of a parliamentary assembly and the construction of “a modern, developed and democratic nation.”

More here in One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Nobel prize-winning peace activist Aung San Suu Kyi (pronounced Ong San Soo Chee), Burma's pro-democracy leader symbolises the struggle of Burma's people to be free. She has been detained for over 13 years by the Burmese regime for campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma.

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Aung San Suu Kyi Biography

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The Depayin Massacre, Five Years Later

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