By Tyler Durden
Global condemnation of Myanmar’s military junta is pouring in after deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a four-year prison term on Monday, according to state TV. It’s the first verdict among a string of charges following a coup which deposed the southeast Asian country’s elected civilian leadership on Feb.1. 76-year old Suu Kyi and other officials were immediately detained and placed under house arrest, which kicked off mass protests, with Myanmar teetering on the brink of civil war over much of the past year, but military patrols have brutally suppressed any counter-movement to restore civilian government.
Her guilty charge by a military court was based on allegations of “inciting public unrest” – and also bizarrely enough – breaching Covid health protocols, The New York Times reported. The four-year sentence hours after it was handed down was reduced to two years, as Al Jazeera reports: “her sentence was cut in half, as was the sentence of former President Win Myint, convicted alongside her” – citing an “amnesty” issued military authorities.
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