Myanmar junta charges Suu Kyi with fraud during 2020 polls

Myanmar's junta has charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with committing electoral fraud during the 2020 polls, state media reported Tuesday.

I imagine they'll call it "rigged", say that it was "stolen", maybe even that Hugo Chavez was helping Suu Kyi.....

Two-bit, petty, anti-democratic tyrants and would-be dictators all tend to think the same....

No one cares what happens to Suu Kyi now, not anymore, not after she defended genocide committed by the very people that are holding her now! I would strip her of the Nobel Peace Prize if it was to me.

what Paul said!

The thing that stands out to me is that no one is calling them out as an illegitimate leadership. It the junta this and after the coup... that. They lost an election in overwhelming numbers, too massive to fudge or do by fraud. They don't get to take control and say anything about the evidence that they claim to have. The chain of custody in handling of the evidence has been corrupted. They've arrested the independent non party officials for doing their job and detained everyone else in a position of power across the board. No one should talk to them as if they were anything like a government. They are simply put, a bunch of murderers and butcher's no matter how white their gloves and uniform is. They should be in the Hague facing life, especially for the crimes against humanity that they let Ang Sun Suu Kyi stand up for when they were responsible and out of her control. This time for the multitude of killings of innocent civilians, false arrests and theft of the affairs of state. They've inflicted genocide in a number of regions in their own country with ethnic cleansing calling their innocent victims rebels in a civil war effectively blaming them for their own fate. Suu Kyi is getting old and her time will soon be over but if these thugs are not stopped, they will go on forever there will be another to replace this one when he's done.

The junta is playing the trump card. I guess that’s what you do when you’re the loser these days.

I will not defend genocide, but I think nobody will fully understand the balancing act she had to play with the junta to keep Myanmar open and it’s people free.

The people of Myanmar continue to love her.

@Paul, in my opinion the world isn't just black and white. Sometimes you have to look at reality and the accept that some things cannot be said or done without angering the military. The main point is that she is trying hard to change a country that have been rule by the junta for a very long time. The only thing she could have done is try to shake the tree little by little. If she had done any large movement before getting her hands on real power, she would have been remove by a more agreeable puppet decades ago. And now when she finally might able to change thing, they immediately removed her. So if you thinking she had any power to stop the military decisions of how they operate, then you are clearly mistaken how Myanmar works.

@Paul, in my opinion the world isn't just black and white. Sometimes you have to look at reality and the accept that some things cannot be said or done without angering the military. The main point is that she is trying hard to change a country that have been rule by the junta for a very long time. The only thing she could have done is try to shake the tree little by little. If she had done any large movement before getting her hands on real power, she would have been remove by a more agreeable puppet decades ago. And now when she finally might able to change thing, they immediately removed her. So if you thinking she had any power to stop the military decisions of how they operate, then you are clearly mistaken how Myanmar works.

Not true at all… She was at fault for the genocide as much as the military! She could have easily stopped it by seeking foreign intervention against her military heads who were corrupt since she was in power time! It was her responsibility to do so as a leader and not turn a blind eye! But instead she lied to the International Court when questioned about the genocide and even denied that it happened! That was pathetic! Your justification for supporting lack of action against the genocide simply shows that she was a weak leader and shouldn’t have been in powers!

The Nobel prize should not be stripped from her as she did some good in the past. But what’s happening to her now is Karma for her bad deeds!

People from other countries think that everyone in Myanmar support the previous Government and Suu Kyi but this is false! Just watching some people make the three finger sign doesn’t represent the entire country! During the early days of the coup itself it was clearly evident on the streets that the pro government supporters were evenly matched with local citizens who supported the military ( coup instigators ) as they clashed! Myanmar in itself is very much divided as the military junta do have support of half of the population while the other half still support Suu Kyi and the previous Government! Either way Suu Kyi and her Government were guilty of genocide and fate has created this situation as her punishment!

She should have done the right thing from the get go (a variety of options were available), but she chose to have it both ways, wanted her cake and eat it, and instead of the one bird (of justice) in her hand she opted for the two in Myanmar's blood-soaked bush and now is left sitting in a cell with nothing and no honor to boot.

Part of the deal that led to the restoration of elected government in Myanmar was an agreement that Suu Kyi would never be allowed to hold the office of President, ostensibly because her children held foreign citizenship. The agreement also set aside 25% of the seats in their Parliament for members of their military to hold. But the elected Myanmar Parliament created a post specifically for her called "State Counselor" where she effectively ruled as Myanmar's President. The actual President, Win Myint, functioned more as an aide or auxiliary to Suu Kyi. That arrangement angered the Myanmar military, what they call the Tatmadaw, tremendously. They felt the Parliament had reneged on the deal made to restore elected government. The Tatmadaw was also unhappy that Suu Kyi's party often passed legislation without ever even talking to them about it. Tatmadaw held 25% of the seats in their Parliament but they were ignored and powerless. When her party won the last election by an even greater landslide the Tatmadaw flipped out and seized power.

The Tatmadaw was also angry with her and Parliament for their closeness to China. We all saw the crowds attacking Chinese factories and business there. Believe it or not the Tatmadaw does not like China very much. They resent the fact that China provides arms and bases for two rebel groups operating along the China/Myanmar border. China is protecting their access to rare earth minerals in Myanmar so they support these rebel groups in exchange for the protection they provide Chinese economic interests. There was a brief border war between the Tatmadaw and China in 2009 where Myanmar combat jets conducted airstrikes inside China, something that caught the Chinese completely off guard.

As for Suu Kyi's support for the Rohingya genocide, I have no sympathy. We had a saying in the Navy "one aw-shucks cancels all attaboys". Our version was a touch saltier. She has no reason to expect any sympathy from the world now and in fact should probably face the ICC for crimes against humanity.

She is not innocent,100 of thousand of Muslim, were deported from Burma, while she ruled

A failed heroine meets a dictatorship. Hard to know whom to root against....