Western outcry over Suu Kyi case

[beer monkey]

To all: The Suu Kyi site has been infected with JS.downloader, a trojan. see:http://securityresponse.symantec.com/se ... 18-1528-99

Most security software catches it and deletes it, good luck with viewing the Suu Kyi web site.

Errrr i will give it a miss, thanks anyway LL.

[Aardvark]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/1 ... peace-icon This is definitely a set up and the Yank is in on it as far as I'm concerned. The Lady is held in isolation but all of a sudden they have 22 witnesses

[Irish Alan]

Interesting timing. They are having elections next year to show how democratic they are so jail the leader of the opposition now.

[izzix]

Who is John W. Yettaw?

By SAW YAN NAING Tuesday, May 19, 2009
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15678

John William Yettaw, 53, spent more than a month at a hotel in Mae Sot in November 2008, after he had traveled to Rangoon and visited Aung San Suu Kyi’s compound for the first time.

While in Mae Sot, people recall him saying that he planned to return to visit Suu Kyi again, which led to his second, fateful encounter with Suu Kyi in May, according to Burmese and Thai sources.

John William Yettaw is shown in this 2005 handout photo released by his family. (Photo: AP)
Suu Kyi, Yettaw and two others are now standing trial in Insein Prison in Rangoon on charges that they violated her terms of house arrest. Suu Kyi has entered a plea of innocent, saying she had no control over Yettaw’s visit to her compound, where she has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years.

Burmese security forces provide a 24-hour guard around her compound on Inya Lake.

Press reports suggested that when Yettaw went to Rangoon in November of last year he was forced to lay over in Burma due to the closure of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, which was seized by Thai protesters led by the People’s Alliance for Democracy.

While in Mae Sot, Yettaw stayed at the Highland Hotel, where he spoke to several people about Burma and made brief comments about Suu Kyi. He openly told people about his first visit to her compound.

He said he was coming back to Mae Sot in April, said a Burmese source.

Sources said that while in Mae Sot, he was frequently accompanied by a Thai woman, and he visited refugee schools where he met children and took notes.

One Burmese source said that few people paid much attention to Yettaw, seeing him as a typical tourist.

Thai security officials are now gathering information on Yettaw, said a Burmese activist who requested anonymity.

According to his family members, Yettaw is still in debt for the expenses he incurred from his first trip to Burma in 2008. Before leaving his home in Falcon, Missouri, Yettaw told his wife, Betty Yettaw, that he planned to visit Asia for a book he is writing, according to an Associated Press story.

Betty Yettaw said she was surprise after hearing that her husband had swam nearly two kilometers across Inya Lake in Rangoon, because he suffers from asthma and diabetes.

Publications and blogs which are closely associated with Burmese authorities of information ministry, such as tharkinwe.com and myanmarnargis.org, posted photos of Yettaw, but there have been no photographs showing the spot where he was arrested by Burmese police.

One conspiracy theory on a Burmese opposition blog, www.niknayman-niknayman.co.cc, contends that Yettaw in fact walked into Suu Kyi’s compound after a taxi driver dropped him in front of Suu Kyi’s home.

The blog alleges that Yettaw walked into the compound after he showed a red card to the guards in front of the democracy leader’s house.

Yettaw, a Mormon, reportedly does not hold strong political views. He receives disability payments from the US Veteran’s Affairs office for Vietnam-related injuries and has pursued studies in psychology.

[Aardvark]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/14 ... rn-suu-kyi This must prove the guy is a nutter

[Aardvark]

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/05 ... 103790.php And this !!

[Aardvark]

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/06 ... 104843.php Why Thailand wont help !!

[saint]

very valid points raised in this artical , it appears that thailand has neither the will or ability to do anything about the problems in burma . and quit honestly why should they . there are problems enough here for them to get thier teeth into , and as the old english proverb says , do not sh~t on your own doorstep . putting sanctions on countries does not work , it only makes the people suffer , not the leaders , and makes dishonest people very rich in the process . i think the burmese people have suffered enough .

[JimboPSM]

..... putting sanctions on countries does not work, it only makes the people suffer, not the leaders, and makes dishonest people very rich in the process. i think the burmese people have suffered enough .

Putting sanctions on is an extremely easy way for politicians to claim they are doing something while in effect they are actually doing nothing that helps to change the regime or help the people.

Offhand, I can only think of one exception where sanctions actually appeared to work and that was with South Africa.

In my opinion sanctions helped to accelerate a change that was already slowly taking place and it was probably further helped by South Africa already having a form of electoral democracy in existence (even though many in the population were disenfranchised).

[Aardvark]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investi ... -offensive Another tragedy unfolding in Burma.

[Aardvark]

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/06 ... 105334.php A good read for anyone interested !

[Aardvark]

Well it looks like the freak who swam to SuuKyi's house gets to go home all expenses payed, and the Lady who did nothing wrong gets another 18 months detention some real justice there http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/15 ... ts-suu-kyi

[rjj04]

The powers that be love totalitarian states (geez they would love to, and almost have, made the US one). They get to control resources, and only need to pay enough to support the upper hierarchy. Sadam would still be in place if he
hadn't wanted to sell "too much" oil. This instance may or may not resolve well, but there will always be others, until
the powers that be are changed. That seems farther away then it has been, in at least a century. Do you think Burma's
neighbours want her stable and strong? In the face of all that, nice to see a person who will sacrifice so much... think I have almost given up trying personally