Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four more years in prison – VG

Deposed Myanmar Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, a peace prize winner, has been sentenced to four more years in prison.

Several media outlets, including news agencies Reuters, AP and AFP, have been informed.

A source told AFP that she was found guilty of two counts in the case in which she was accused of illegal importation and possession of walkie-talkies and at one point in the case in which she was accused of violating Corona rules.

In December, 76-year-old Suu Kyi was sentenced to prison for sedition and violating coronary artery strictures. The sentence was in fact a four-year prison sentence, but it was commuted to two years’ house arrest.

The military junta that carried out a coup d’état in the country on February 1 of last year charged it with dozens of alleged crimes, the sentences of which together amount to more than 100 years.

Suu Kyi denies criminal charges on all counts.

massacres and clashes

There have been large-scale protests and clashes in Myanmar since last year’s military coup. The military council has since ruled with an iron fist, suppressing peaceful protesters and other resistance.

More than 1,300 people have been killed and more than 11,000 arrested since then, according to local activists.

Throughout the fall, Qin County in the north of the country witnessed violent clashes between the junta and local rebel groups. In September, I became young Tantlang Village is somewhat deserted after combat operations. The site contains The havoc just continued.

On Christmas Eve, new shocking messages came from the country. Then there was more than 30 civilians were killed in Habrosu villageeast of the country. Among the dead were children and staff of the Red Cross.

“Save the Children condemns this attack as a violation of international humanitarian law,” said Inger Acing, director of Save the Children.

One of the villagers, who said he went to the scene afterwards, told the Associated Press that the victims fled the fighting between armed resistance groups and the government army in Kayah State. They are said to have been on their way to the refugee camps west of Habrosu when they were stopped and killed.

Last week, another massacre was announced earlier in December Via AP . News Agency.

Brutal attacks on protesters

In early December, video footage from the streets of Yangon, the country’s largest city, showed how the junta Protesters brutally prevented protesters from taking to the streets In Yangon, the country’s largest city.

Witnesses said they first drove a car into the crowd, then were beaten with batons and shot at the protesters.

– I was injured and fell in front of a truck. A soldier hit me with a rifle, but I pushed him back. Then he shot me as I zigzagged to escape, one protester told Reuters. At least five of them lost their lives.

Earlier, human rights organizations warned that the military council deliberately shot protesters in the head – with sharpened ammunition.

The government-in-exile called for “armed resistance”.

In October last year, Myanmar’s government-in-exile informed VG that they were now calling for armed struggle against the country’s military junta – at the same time they warned of a full-blown civil war in the country.

People cannot tolerate more violence and more abuse. That’s why we’re asking people and armed ethnic groups to resist, Yoo Aung Myo Min told VG. He is the Minister of State responsible for human rights in the government-in-exile, Government of National Unity of Myanmar (NUG).

NUG does not start from Aung San Suu Kyi’s ousted and imprisoned government, where the leader herself and most of her relatives were arrested, but was formed by parliamentarians who won seats in elections that were annulled by the junta.

do you remember this? The video of aerobics coach Kheng Hanin Wai spread after the military coup.

After the Myanmar military took power, it lost Prices soared in the country, and thousands lost their jobs condition.

As a result, more and more people are struggling to get food on the table. This summer, AFP reported that the lucky ones, who had money in the bank, had to stand in line for hours to get them out.

UN human rights activist Michelle Bachelet stated in June that Myanmar was going through a humanitarian crisis, and that only the plotters of the military coup were to blame.