The junta indicts the opponent Aung San Suu Kyi

The military junta in power in Burma since 1962, tightens the noose

around the muse of the opposition, Aung San Suu Kyi. "The Lady of Rangoon, aged 63, was arrested and charged yesterday with his two assistants for breaking the rules of his house arrest. A week earlier, an American had been so bizarre intrusion into his house, where she was confined under close surveillance. The junta accuses the opponent of violating the law that it must "protect the state from the dangers of subversive elements."

His indictment comes at a key moment: first, because his arrest was due to expire May 27, because then the head of the Burmese junta, Senior General Than Shwe, to organize next year for national elections , that it intends to control throughout.

In Rangoon, the rumor about the reasons that led the U.S. to enter in the opponent. "Many people think that this incident was created or an instrument to discredit Suu Kyi and the military government to provide a pretext to extend her house arrest," said the Burmese opposition site The Irrawaddy, based in Thailand. The diplomats in Rangoon, however, consider the unlikely event, according to the same source.

John William Yettaw, an American of 53 years, had crossed a lake to swim at night to reach the house of "the Lady", where he remained for two days. After his adventure, the personal physician of Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained, while the health of the opponent was deteriorating. Yettaw, a resident of Missouri and father of seven children, was also arrested and charged for violating the rules of the Immigration and Security Act. He faces three to five years in prison. Counsel for Aung San Suu Kyi holds him responsible for the whole affair, saying she had asked him to leave the house. "It's a fool," he said yesterday.

Several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and France have protested after the indictment of the opponent. In a communiqué, Paris has called "the Burmese government to unconditionally release Aung San Suu Kyi and the leaders of the opposition in Myanmar to start with them a necessary dialogue, only to give way to elections in 2010 and a legitimacy credibility that they are in the current circumstances, totally lacking. "

The opponent was transferred yesterday in a special building at Insein prison, where rotting and tortured more than half of the 2 100 political prisoners in the country. His trial is to open up on Monday. It is liable, with his two assistants, three to five years in prison. W