Flower protests in Myanmar for Suu Kyi's 76th birthday

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Supporters of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi wore flowers in their hair and paraded with them at street demonstrations on Saturday as she marked her 76th birthday locked up by the generals who overthrew her.

"I demand freedom for all the people including Aung San Suu Kyi," he said"Her individual rights and political rights are being violated."Suu Kyi is among nearly 5,000 people currently detained by the junta for opposing the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group. It also says 870 people have been killed - a figure challenged by the junta.

The army overthrew Suu Kyi after her administration dismissed its allegations of fraud over her party's landslide election victory last November. International monitors had said the vote was fair. She now faces charges from illegally possessing walkie-talkie radios and breaking coronavirus protocols to inciting discontent, corruption and breaking the Official Secrets Act - which can carry a 14-year jail term.

Suu Kyi's lawyers say the charges are absurd and her supporters say they are aimed at eliminating her from politics.Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, but her standing in Western countries collapsed in 2017 over her defence of the army after the exodus of 700,000 minority Rohnigya Muslims in the face of an offensive.The General Assembly resolution calling for a halt of arms supplies to Myanmar was adopted with the support of 119 countries.

"The risk of a large-scale civil war is real," UN special envoy on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener told the General Assembly after the vote."Time is of the essence. The opportunity to reverse the military takeover is narrowing.

 

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The Muslim minority were massacred by the army with her tacit approval.she refused to speak against the genocide of Muslim rohingya community and instead went to defend the genocide at the International Court of Justice. She is tasting her own medicine

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