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Article: Suu Kyi trial in Burma (Myanmar) highlights activist's limited power.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- May 19, 2009
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Byline: Patrick Winn Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Bangkok, Thailand -- By now, the junta that governs Burma (Myanmar) is accustomed to the din of international outrage that follows each new incrimination of Aung San Suu Kyi. The latest has the pro-democracy icon in an ongoing trial inside Burma's notorious Insein Prison. She's charged with briefly sheltering an American admirer who donned makeshift flippers and swam to her lakeshore home, where she has lived under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years. The trial has revitalized Ms. Suu Kyi's power to elicit sympathy worldwide for Burma's suppressed democracy movement. But it has also ...