Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has again filed an appeal to Myanmar's supreme court against her extended house arrest after similar appeals were lodged and rejected twice by Myanmar's military courts in the recent past.
Suu Kyi has been in detention for 14 of her 20 years in captivity for trying to bring democracy into Myanmar. The country, formerly known as Burma, had been ruled by military junta for decades. The Nobel peace laureate, who has spent most of the last two decades locked up, had her detention lengthened by 18 months in August last year after being convicted over a bizarre incident in which a US man swam to her lakeside home.
Suu Kyi has organized the National League for Democracy (NLD) a party she used in running for a political office in the country. The NLD won 1990 elections by a landslide but was prevented by the junta from taking power. With her popular victory, Suu Kyi has been arrested and put in jail by Myanmar's military junta instead of allowing her to assume her elected position and become the country's first democratic Prime Minister.
The Supreme Court last week rejected a bid by the pro-democracy icon to prevent the disbanding of her party under widely criticized laws governing elections that are scheduled for sometime later this year.
Myanmar has been under severe pressure from some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) for repeatedly denying the democracy icon her political rights and for having kept her in jail for two decades on alleged flimsy political charges. Myanmar is a member of Asean.
Source :http://digitaljournal.com/article/291920
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