The chef of the Burmese assembly is declared to have sold out of negotiations with former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on the issue of son procès, to find a solution to the crise déclenchée par le coup d’État militaire de last year. “Once the proceedings against him are completed according to the law, we will consider (negotiations) depending on his response,” Min Aung Hlaing said in a statement.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 77, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was arrested in the February 1, 2021 military coup that toppled her government and ended a brief period of democracy in Burma.
She has since been sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison on a series of charges and faces decades more in prison if convicted of other crimes in a closed trial before a military court. Already sentenced to a total of eleven years in prison, she was sentenced on Monday to an additional six years in prison on corruption charges.
A UN special envoy this week
Journalists were unable to attend the trial, their lawyers were unable to speak to the press, and the board gave no indication when their trials would end.
In July, a spokesman for the junta told AFP that it was not “impossible” for the military regime to engage in dialogue with Suu Kyi. “We can’t say (negotiations with Suu Kyi) are impossible,” Zaw Min Tun said.
This week, UN Special Envoy Noeleen Heyzer made her first trip to Burma since her appointment in October 2021 and met with Min Aung Hlaing and other officials from the junta. She called for an end to all violence and the release of all political prisoners, and asked to meet Aung San Suu Kyi, who is in solitary confinement in a prison in the capital.
But he was unable to meet her and human rights organizations said there was little chance his visit would persuade the military to engage in dialogue with opponents.
Diplomatic efforts without result for the moment
Aung San Suu Kyi remains a respected figure for her courageous opposition to a previous military dictatorship, though her international reputation has suffered since she ruled the country in a power-sharing deal with the generals following her victory in the National League match by Democracy in 2015. elections.
Opponents currently engaged in clashes with the junta forces believe their movement should go further than the one led by Aung San Suu Kyi decades ago. Current dissidents say their goal is to permanently uproot military control over the country’s political life.
Diplomatic efforts by the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Burma is a member, have so far failed to end the conflict. In 2021, ASEAN backed a “five-point consensus” calling for an end to violence and constructive dialogue, but this has been largely ignored by the junta.
More than 2,200 people have been killed and more than 15,000 arrested in the army’s crackdown on dissidents since the coup, according to a local human rights watchdog.
Source: BFM TV
