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Suu Kyi charged with breaching terms of her house arrest

AFP, Yangon
Myanmar's military junta charged prodemocracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi yester day with breaching the terms of her house arrest over a bizarre incident in which a US man swam to her lakeside house.
The 63-ycar-old goes on trial on Monday on the charges, which carry a jail term of up to five years and would stretch her detention past its supposed expiry date this month and through controversial elections due in 2010.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and her two maids appeared in court at the noto-, rious Insein Prison near Yangon, hours after police whisked her from the residence where she has been detained for most of the past two decades.
"The authorities have charged Aung San Suu Kyi and her two maids" under the Law Safeguarding the State from the Dangers of Subversive Elements, one of her lawyers, Hla Myo Myint, told reporters outside tire prison.
The law governs the conditions under which Aung San Suu Kyi is held under house arrest. Legal sources said she was accused of violating the law by communicating with foreigners.
US national John Yettaw, who was held last week for sneaking into her house and
staying there for two days before he was caught, was also charged with breaking the security law and immigration conditions, Hla Myo Myint said.
Yettaw, 53, apparendy used a pair of homemade flippers to swim across a lake to her crumbling residence in an apparent show of solidarity, but Aung San Suu Kyi's main lawyer Kyi Win said they had asked him to leave.
"We have to blame him," Kyi Win said. "He is a fool."
Aung San Suu Kyi would not be allowed to return home but would be held at a special house on the grounds of the prison while proceedings were under way, Kyi Win added.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which won a landslide election victory in 1990, but was never allowed to govern, said it "strongly denounces" the charges against its leader.
"She did not commit any crime," it said in a statement.
The charges against her provoked international anger, with the US State Department describing them as "troubling" and European Union special envoy Piero Fassino saying that there was "no justification".
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "deeply disturbed" by the
"unlawful" detention. Dozens of Myanmar protesters meanwhile rallied in front of the country's embassy in Tokyo.
The Oxford-educated daughter of the country's founding father General Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the past 19 years in virtual isolation in her home living with her maids and receiving visits from her doctors and lawyers.
Her most recent six-year period of detention is due to end on May 27 but diplomats said the junta was keen to keep her locked up ahead of elections that it has promised next year as part of its "roadmap to democracy"'.
Aung Din, executive director of the US Campaign for Burma, said it was the "cunning plan of the regime -- to put Aung San Suu Kyi in continuous detention beyond the six years allowed by the law they used to justify the detention."
Her party said at the weekend that she was in poor health and called for her to be given urgent medical assistance after her doctor was taken in for questioning over the incident with the American. He remains in detention.
She was unable to eat and put on an intravenous drip twice in the past week, suffering from dehydration and low blood pressure.