The latest on the Aung San Suu situation is that her trial started yesterday, Monday, May 18th and continued today. News sources estimate that the trial may last 3 months. For details read http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/19/Suu-Kyi-trial-a-mockery-laureates-say/UPI-21611242732011/
An unfortunate and infuriating event occurred last Friday when a prominent Burmese lawyer was disbarred when he applied to defend Aung San Suu Kyi: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-myanmar17-2009may17,0,2157103.story
In hopeful news all of the Nobel Peace Laureates on our board, including the Dalai Lama, Oscar Arias, and Jose Ramos Horta are coming together to support Aung San Suu Kyi and demand her release! Dawn has been spear heading an effort to get all of the Laureates to sign letters to send to the Secretary General of ASEAN and the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon. This effort has been extremely successful! Go Dawn! http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/19/Suu-Kyi-trial-a-mockery-laureates-say/UPI-21611242732011/
Also, the Nobel Committee which rarely comments on laureates strongly denounced Suu Kyi’s detention: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE54E2VZ20090515.
Here are a few more links that may be of interest:
Conditions in Insein Prison: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3006922.stm
Pictures of international protests of Suu Kyi’s Trial: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8055767.stm
