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Burmese Court Bars Suu Kyi Witnesses

HeadlineMay 28, 2009

In Burma, the court overseeing the trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected three of four witnesses that would have testified on her behalf. Suu Kyi is accused of violating her house arrest over an unwanted visit from an American citizen who swam across a lake to reach her home. The American, John Yettaw, testified Wednesday he was prompted by a “vision” of Suu Kyi’s assassination. Yettaw is believed to be mentally unstable. Wednesday marked both the nineteenth anniversary of Suu Kyi’s victory in national elections that Burma’s military junta has refused to acknowledge and the sixth anniversary of the last time she was free from house arrest.

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