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May 21, 2009, Issue #3715

QUOTE OF THE DAY
ﾂ“This is an unacceptable situationﾂ…. I'm going to visit Myanmar as soon as
possibleﾂ…. I'm deeply concerned about what has been happening in Myanmar
in terms of democratization and I'm going to urge again the release of
political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi." – Ban Ki-Moon, United
Nations Secretary-General

INSIDE BURMA
New York Times: Myanmar again closes trial of democracy activist
Reuters: Intruder had "vision" Suu Kyi In danger
Independent (UK): 'Crackling with energy', Suu Kyi finally emerges into
the light
Irrawaddy: Threats reported against the NLDﾂ’s Win Tin
Telegraph (UK): The children of Cyclone Nargis

ON THE BORDER
SHAN: Shan Herald launches Thai language website

REGIONAL
Mizzima News: EU discusses Burma with China

INTERNATIONAL
Reuters: U.N.'s Ban to go to Myanmar "as soon as possible"
Press Trust of India: UNESCO chief condemns arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi
VOA: Harvard report calls for UN investigation into Burma rights abuses

OPINION / OTHER
DVB: Commentary: The brief charade of an open trial – Francis Wade
Irrawaddy: Suu Kyiﾂ’s shrewd message of reconciliation – Kyaw Zwa Moe

INTERVIEW
Irrawaddy: Suu Kyi lawyer says UNSC should meet if sheﾂ’s convicted

PRESS RELEASE
International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School: Worldﾂ’s leading
jurists call for investigation into crimes against humanity and war crimes
in Burma
____________________________________
INSIDE BURMA

May 21, New York Times
Myanmar again closes trial of democracy activist – Seth Mydans and Mark
McDonald

With international outrage growing over its prosecution of the Nobel Peace
Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the military regime in Myanmar again
closed her trial on Thursday to foreign diplomats.

The authorities opened the proceedings to 29 ambassadors and a handful of
local reporters on Wednesday, the first chance for outsiders to see the
courtroom, with its clacking typewriters and lazy ceiling fans.

But court officials again barred all visitors and observers on Thursday.

Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader, is being tried on charges
that she violated the terms of her current six-year house arrest. The new
charges have drawn widespread scorn, and the British ambassador called the
case ﾂ“a show trial.ﾂ”

ﾂ“You have got all the legal trappings today going on and it all looks very
familiar and comforting,ﾂ” said the ambassador, Mark Canning, in a BBC
Radio 4 interview after watching Wednesdayﾂ’s proceedings. ﾂ“But there is
little doubt that the end of the story is probably already scripted.ﾂ”

Many analysts say the charges are a pretext for extending Mrs. Aung San
Suu Kyiﾂ’s house arrest before elections next year, in which the ruling
generals may fear that her popularity could sway the vote against them.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assailed the military junta
during a Senate budget hearing on Wednesday, saying it was ﾂ“outrageous
that they are trying her, and that they continue to hold her because of
her political popularity.ﾂ”

Mrs. Clinton also said the elections ﾂ“will be illegitimate because of the
way they have treated her.ﾂ”

Shown on local television dressed in a pink blouse and maroon sarong, Mrs.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, appeared confident and in good spirits on Wednesday.

ﾂ“I hope to see you in better days,ﾂ” she said as she was being taken back
to her cell at Insein Prison. The trial, officially on the docket as
Criminal Case No. 47/2009, is being held in a courtroom inside the prison,
which is near Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon.

Afterward, Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi also was allowed to meet briefly with the
ambassadors of Singapore, Russia and Thailand at a so-called ﾂ“guest houseﾂ”
inside the prison complex. A report from Singaporeﾂ’s government quoted its
ambassador, Robert Chua, as saying that Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi ﾂ“expressed
the view that it was not too late for something good to come out of this
unfortunate incident.ﾂ”

The latest charges were brought against Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi after an
American adventurer swam across a lake in central Yangon and spent a night
at the waterfront villa where she has spent 13 of the last 19 years under
house arrest. The terms of her detention prohibit foreign guests or
overnight visits without permission; even visiting senior diplomats are
routinely denied access to her.

According to the government mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar, an
official testifying at the trial on Wednesday said the police had searched
her home and found a strange collection of items that the swimmer — an
American, John Yettaw, 53 — had left behind.

They included ﾂ“two black chadors usually worn by Muslim women, two black
scarves, two long skirts, one red torch light, six color pencils in a
plastic bag, three pairs of sunglasses, two signal lights, a pair of
swimming glasses, one two-pin plug, two pieces of circuit wire, one
recharger, a black bag with a zip in it that was used to keep the
apparatuses, a plastic bag with a zip in it, two pairs of gray stockings,
five parts of an English book, and a bag with pieces of torn paper sheets
in it.ﾂ”

The paper quoted a witness, a police captain named Tin Zaw Tun, as
testifying that Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi signed a search form accepting
responsibility for the items. ﾂ“Asked why Mr. John William Yettaw left two
chadors, she replied that he left them as gifts for her,ﾂ” the newspaper
reported.

No explanation has been given for why Mr. Yettaw, an unemployed former
serviceman from Falcon, Mo., swam to her home on May 3 using improvised
floats and homemade flippers. He also is standing trial, along with two
female members of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyiﾂ’s household staff.

ﾂ“Everyone is very angry with this wretched American,ﾂ” said U Kyi Win, one
of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyiﾂ’s lawyers. ﾂ“He is the cause of all these
problems. Heﾂ’s a fool.ﾂ”

Mr. Yettaw apparently sneaked past government security personnel at the
residence and got into Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyiﾂ’s home. She asked him to
leave, one of her lawyers said, but, pleading exhaustion, he persuaded her
to let him stay overnight in a ground-floor room. The lawyer said Mr.
Yettaw had spent part of the time praying while he was at the house.

He reportedly made a similar swim last November. Denied entry then, he
left a copy of the Book of Mormon and swam away.

Also Wednesday, another police captain, Sa Kyaw Win, gave a statement that
he had been sent by his superiors on May 6 to search Mr. Yettawﾂ’s
fifth-floor room at the Beauty Land Hotel in Yangon. Sixty-one items were
seized, he said, including three $100 bills that had been slipped into a
telephone book.

Seth Mydans reported from Bangkok, and Mark McDonald from Hong Kong.
____________________________________
May 21, Reuters
Intruder had "vision" Suu Kyi In danger

The American man at the centre of the trial against Myanmar opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi swam to her house after having a vision that her
life was in danger, Suu Kyi's lawyers said Thursday.

Diplomats were again barred from the court inside the notorious Insein
prison Thursday, a day after the junta opened the trial for the first time
since it began Monday.

The gesture at transparency failed to ease international pressure on the
regime to free Nobel laureate Suu Kyi.

Thursday's session heard the first hint of a motive for John Yettaw's
bizarre actions two weeks ago that could see Suu Kyi jailed for up to five
years if she is found guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest.

Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's party and a member of her defence
team, said Thursday Yettaw had made the comments Tuesday as the court
heard testimony from a police officer who had questioned the American.

Nyan Win said Yettaw told his lawyer to ask the officer: "Do you remember
that I told you at the interrogation that I had a vision that her life
would be in danger?."

"I had come to Myanmar to warn Myanmar authorities and Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi against that danger," Nyan Win quoted the 53-year-old American as
saying. The court refused to allow Yettaw's lawyers to ask the officer the
question.

Yettaw, who state media said used homemade flippers and flotation devices
to swim to her home on May 4, did not discuss his motives at a meeting
with U.S. diplomats after his arrest.

Thursday, the court was shown a two-hour video taken by Yettaw inside the
home, Nyan Win said. At one point, Yettaw turned the camera on himself.

"I have now arrived in Aung San Suu Kyi's house in Myanmar. I asked her
permission to take her picture, but she refused," Nyan Win quoted Yettaw
as saying.

"She looks frightened and I am sorry about this."

The Missouri resident is charged with immigration violations, entering a
restricted area and violating a security law guarding the state from
"those desiring to cause subversive acts."

Suu Kyi and two female assistants who also live in her home were charged
under the same draconian security law a week ago.

Her lawyers argue she did not invite Yettaw and should not be held
responsible for the actions of a troubled man.

"OUTRAGEOUS" TRIAL

Critics say the "scripted" trial is aimed at silencing the charismatic
leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) until after a
multi-party election in the former Burma in 2010.

"We are happy that the Myanmar authorities let our people see Daw Suu Kyi,
but it's not the end," Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said in
Bangkok.

"Our main objective is the release of all political prisoners that will
lead to national reconciliation," he said.

Suu Kyi's current detention order expires on May 27 after a spell of six
years.

The recently ill Suu Kyi appeared healthy and confident during the
45-minute hearing Wednesday attended by 29 diplomats and 10 Burmese
journalists. She said she hoped to see them "in better days."

Singapore ambassador Robert Chua said she told them national
reconciliation was still possible "if all parties so wished" and "it was
not too late for something good to come out of this unfortunate incident."

In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the upcoming
election would be illegitimate because of the treatment of the charismatic
NLD leader.

"It is outrageous that they are trying her and that they continue to hold
her because of her political popularity," Clinton told a congressional
hearing.

Suu Kyi has been detained for more than 13 of the past 19 years, most of
them at her home in Yangon, guarded by police, her mail intercepted and
visitors restricted.

LEFT GIFTS

Despite the tight security at her home, authorities say Yettaw, who
according to media reports suffers from asthma, swam across Inya Lake and
sneaked inside the lakeside compound.

Police said Suu Kyi and her companions violated the terms of her house
arrest by allowing him to stay there for two days.

Her lawyers say she told him to leave but he refused, and Suu Kyi did not
report him for fear he would get into trouble.

At Wednesday's hearing, police captain Tin Zaw Tun said he found several
items left at Suu Kyi's home as gifts by Yettaw, who had first tried to
meet her on November 30 but she refused.

The items included two black chadors, the robes worn by Muslim women in
public, two black scarves, two long skirts, swimming goggles and some
books, the captain said in a report by the state-owned New Light of
Myanmar.

(Writing by Darren Schuettler; Editing by Alan Raybould and Paul Tait)
____________________________________
May 21, Independent (UK)
'Crackling with energy', Suu Kyi finally emerges into the light – Phoebe
Kennedy

Burmese democracy leader leaves her home for the first time since 2003 as
'secret' trial begins

After nearly six years hidden from sight, suddenly yesterday Aung San Suu
Kyi was back on public view – tranquil, composed, yet "crackling with
energy".

Until yesterday Burma's democracy leader was being tried in secret,
somewhere deep inside Rangoon's Insein prison. Then without warning or
explanation, the generals threw open the doors of the court to diplomats
and even a handful of (local) journalists.

Hardly anybody has set eyes on Ms Suu Kyi since she last disappeared
behind the doors of her home in July 2003. UN special envoy Ibrahim
Gambari has met her a couple of times, at his insistence, as have the
senior leadership of the National League for Democracy (NLD), her party.
In November 2007 she came out of her home to pay respects to thousands of
monks demonstrating against the regime who had succeeded in getting as far
as her villa. But that's it.

No diplomats, no friends, no relatives, no journalists, no party members,
practically no one has seen her – with the disastrous exception of John
Yettaw, the American who got it into his head to swim Inya lake to drop in
on her, and gave the regime the excuse to put her on trial.

But there she was in court, in a salmon Burmese jacket and maroon sarong,
as poised as ever. "She was ramrod straight, dignified, composed," said
British ambassador Mark Canning, a witness to the event in company with 10
other ambassadors. "She seemed to crackle with energy – you could see the
way she commanded her defence team, and in fact commanded the wider
courtroom."

"She sat listening intently and alertly to what was going on," said
Philippines chargé d'affaires Joselito Chad Jacinto. "She exuded an aura
which can only be described as awe-inspiring."

It was at 10 o'clock yesterday that the secret trial abruptly turned into
a show trial. "We were called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 10
o'clock in the morning," said Mr Canning. "We thought it was going to be
the usual explanation of the Myanmar [Burma] government position. Instead
we were told that within two hours we would be in the courtroom."
Overnight the secret trial turned into a show trial.

The democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, who has spent 13 of the
past 19 years under house arrest, is accused of violating the terms of her
detention by allowing Mr Yettaw, a Vietnam veteran and Mormon, to spend
two nights in her family's villa on Lake Inya in the subur