(EFE).- The Burmese junta announced on Tuesday a partial pardon for the former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, detained since the coup d’état on February 1, 2021 and on whom sentences amounting to up to 33 years in prison weigh.
The military regime released the news today in a brief letter to which EFE had access, one day after announcing the extension of the state of emergency in Burma for another six months, which nullifies the possibility of holding elections this year.
The military notification only cites 5 of the 19 convictions against Suu Kyi as annulled, which was also confirmed to EFE by a person linked to the case, so it is not expected that the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be fully released.
The decision comes days after speculation grew about a possible transfer to house arrest of the former leader, 78, who has only been seen once in public since the coup.
The decision comes days after speculation mounted about a possible transfer to house arrest for the former leader.
Last Friday sources close to Suu Kyi assured EFE that she had been “rehoused” on an unconfirmed date in a building controlled by the military regime whose location is unknown, after having remained isolated in a prison in the capital, Naypyidó.
Suu Kyi has already spent 15 years under house arrest in a residence in Rangoon, during the rule of the previous military junta (1962-2011).
The coup d’état two and a half years ago, which toppled the government headed by Suu Kyi and ended a decade of democratic transition, has plunged Burma into a deep political, social and economic crisis and has opened a spiral of violence that It has exacerbated the guerrilla war that the country has been experiencing for decades.
The Army justifies the coup for alleged fraud during the general elections of November 2020, the result of which they annulled and in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) swept, as it did in 2015, with the endorsement of observers international.
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