The Singapore Foreign Ministry has received a tongue-lashing from a Burmese journalist Aung Zaw from influential online magazine “The Irrawaddy”, run by the Burmese exile community in Thailand for its ambivalent response to the conviction of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (read original article here)
Suu Kyi was found guilty by a Burmese judge of “violating” the terms of her house arrest and was initially sentenced to 3 years of hard labor in the infamous Insein prison which was subsequently commuted to 18 months of house imprisonment on the orders of the head of the ruling military junta Than Shwe.
The court’s decision to extend her imprisonment was greeted with a chorus of condemnation from the international community and governments around the region and beyond.
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Suu Kyi was found guilty by a Burmese judge of “violating” the terms of her house arrest and was initially sentenced to 3 years of hard labor in the infamous Insein prison which was subsequently commuted to 18 months of house imprisonment on the orders of the head of the ruling military junta Than Shwe.
The court’s decision to extend her imprisonment was greeted with a chorus of condemnation from the international community and governments around the region and beyond.
Read rest of article here:
http://temasekreview.com/?p=11957
