SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Burma’s military junta charged pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi today with breaching the terms of her house arrest over an incident in which an American swam across a lake and entered her home. The 63-year-old opposition leader faces trial on Monday in what critics said was an excuse for Burma’s generals to extend the latest period of her detention, which was due to expire in less than two weeks. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and her two maids appeared in court at the notorious Insein Prison near Rangoon, hours after police whisked her away from the residence where she has been detained most of the past two decades. “The authorities have charged Aung San Suu Kyi and her two maids [under the Law Safeguarding the State from the Dangers of Subversive Elements],” lawyer Hla Myo Myint said. Suu Kyi and the others face a prison term of between three and five years, the lawyer said, which would leave her behind bars next year when the junta has said it will make good on a long-standing vow to hold fresh elections. MORE
GUARDIAN: The American intruder described by one member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s staff as “a nutty fellow” was John Yettaw, 53, a Mormon who reportedly told Burmese exiles in Thailand he was writing a “faith-based” book on heroism. Before he set out, he photographed himself wearing homemade flippers, which he used along with lashed-together plastic containers as flotation aids, to make the mile-long swim across Inya lake. He was identified by US media as a Vietnam veteran – he would have been 19 at the end of the war in 1975 – and a Mormon who said he had come to her house to pray with her. MORE
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