Aung San Suu Kyi faces new corruption charge

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Aung San Suu Kyi, who once was considered as an icon of democracy and human rights lost such credentials when she showed extreme cruelty towards the Rohingya refugees and sided with the Myanmar junta and those cruel forces that committed genocide on Rohingyas. Now she possibly is paying back the price of her inhuman actions. According to media reports, a new corruption cases have been opened against Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other former officials from her government, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said on Thursday.

The cases are the latest of a series brought against elected leader Suu Kyi, who was overthrown by the army on February 1 in a coup that has plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos.

The state newspaper quoted the Anti-Corruption Commission as saying the accusations related to the misuse of land for the charitable Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, which she chaired, as well as earlier accusations of accepting money and gold.

It said case files had been opened against Suu Kyi and several other officials from the capital Naypyidaw at police stations on Wednesday.

“She was found guilty of committing corruption using her rank. So she was charged under Anti-Corruption Law section 55,” the paper said. That law provides for up to 15 years in prison for those found guilty.

Reuters was not immediately able to reach Suu Kyi’s lawyers for comment.

Cases Suu Kyi already faced ranged from the illegal possession of walkie-talkie radios to breaking the Official Secrets Act. Her supporters say the cases are politically motivated.

The army overthrew Suu Kyi saying her party had cheated in November elections, an accusation rejected by the previous election commission and international monitors.

Since then, the army has failed to establish control. It faces daily protests, strikes that have paralyzed the economy by opponents of the junta, a rash of assassinations and bomb attacks and a resurgence of conflicts in Myanmar’s borderlands.

According to political analysts, domestic situation in Myanmar is already turning extreme alarming and it is anticipated that within few months, mass revolts against Myanmar’s military junta may suddenly spark resulting in ouster of the military regime from power.

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