Naypyidaw,Myanmar — Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial for sedition in a junta court Tuesday, more than four months after her government was ousted in a coup that has thrown her country into turmoil.
Huge pro-democracy protests against the generals’ February putsch have been met with a brutal crackdown that a monitoring group says has killed more than 850 people.
Suu Kyi “appeared in good health” at the hearing in the capital Naypyidaw as a witness produced by the junta testified against her on colonial-era sedition charges, her lawyer Min Min Soe told AFP.
“She has good resistance… She listens normally… At some points (during the testimony against her),…
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