Myanmar’s ruling junta points contemporary costs for Suu Kyi

Myanmar’s ruling navy squared off towards its opponents within the courts, the streets and the countryside Monday, displaying no signal of relenting in its crackdown towards these against February’s coup.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who led the elected authorities toppled within the navy takeover, was accused of a contemporary felony cost when she appeared by video hyperlink earlier than a choose within the capital Naypyitaw on Monday, in line with her legal professionals.
Suu Kyi was accused of breaching a legislation meant to regulate the unfold of the coronavirus, the second such cost towards her below the identical legislation.
She is already going through costs of illegally importing walkie-talkies, unlicensed use of them, inciting public unrest and breaking the official secrets and techniques act.
The junta additionally has accused Suu Kyi of corruption and offered on state tv what it stated was proof that she took bribes.
Suu Kyi’s supporters say the prosecutions are politically motivated techniques to attempt to legitimise the Feb. 1 coup and discredit her.
The generals overthrew Suu Kyi’s authorities lower than three months after she gained a landslide victory in a common election and any conviction might see her banned from a future election.

The coup put a halt to the progress Myanmar had made towards higher democratization after 5 many years of navy rule.
The takeover and the bloody crackdown on opposition that has adopted has led to requires an arms embargo on the nation and different worldwide sanctions that might stress the navy right into a return to extra democratic rule.
As of Sunday, 706 protesters and bystanders have been verified as killed within the post-coup crackdown, stated the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which tracks casualties and arrests.
Despite the deadly menace protesters returned to the streets and rural by-ways of southern Myanmar on Monday, decided to maintain public demonstrations going.
In Launglone Township close to town of Dawei, a big group mounted motorbikes and rode via the villages of Pandale and Nyin Maw, pink banners snapping within the breeze as they sang and chanted slogans of resistance.

In Dawei itself, college students, lecturers and engineers carried their message of defiance via town on foot.
Marches happened in different cities and cities as nicely, and some carried on a development of assigning a unusual theme to their protests.
Demonstrators in Mandalay, the nation’s second-biggest metropolis, held a “Watermelon Strike,” marching with large slices and making anti-coup shows that includes slogans painted on the melons or hooked up to them.
In Yangon, 5 public metropolis buses caught fireplace earlier than daybreak, with no indications of who may need set them alight. Such mysterious assaults have mounted in latest weeks, with the junta blaming protesters and protesters blaming the junta.
More intense violence happened within the northern state of Kachin, the place two Myanmar navy fighter jets attacked a base belonging to the Kachin Independence Organization, which is the primary political group representing the Kachin ethnic group within the space.
The organisation, which seeks autonomy for the Kachin, maintains its personal navy drive, and stated its base has additionally been below artillery assault, reported the Kachin News Group.

Their report additionally stated Kachin forces on Monday staged a profitable assault to drive away a Myanmar navy drive guarding a bridge on a significant street.
The Kachin are certainly one of greater than a dozen ethnic minority teams who’ve been in search of autonomy for many years.
Another, the Karen in japanese Myanmar, have additionally been going through assaults from the military for the reason that coup, together with air strikes.
The Free Burma Rangers, which provides humanitarian medical help to ethnic minority villagers in Myanmar’s border areas, says greater than 20,000 villagers have been displaced by the federal government’s offensive, which was persevering with Monday with the usage of artillery.
The Kachin and the Karen have declared their solidarity with the protests towards the coup and vowed to protects demonstrations within the territory they management.

Also showing in court docket Monday by video hyperlink with Suu Kyi had been former President Win Myint and the previous mayor of Naypyitaw, Myo Aung, who additionally face costs.
According to the top of her authorized crew, Khin Maung Zaw, the three defendants appeared in good well being, however the lawyer who was in court docket was not allowed to talk to them about any issues apart from the speedy circumstances towards them.