Myanmar junta chief says Suu Kyi is wholesome, will quickly seem earlier than court docket for trial

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing stated deposed chief Aung San Suu Kyi used to be wholesome at house and would seem in court docket in a couple of days, in his first interview since overthrowing her in a February 1 coup.

The coup has plunged the Southeast Asian nation into chaos and considered one of a number of ethnic armed teams antagonistic to the ruling junta complicated to assault an army put up in a northwestern jade mining the town on Saturday, native media stated.

Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her lengthy combat towards earlier navy rulers, is amongst greater than 4,000 other people detained because the coup. She faces fees that vary from illegally possessing walkie-talkie radios to violating a state secrets and techniques regulation.

“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is in excellent well being. She is at her house and wholesome. She goes to stand trial on the court docket in a couple of days,” Min Aung Hlaing stated via video hyperlink with the Hong Kong-based Chinese language language broadcaster Phoenix Tv, in excerpts launched on Saturday.

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The interviewer requested him what he considered the efficiency of Suu Kyi, 75, who’s broadly admired within the nation of 53 million for her marketing campaign that had introduced tentative democratic reforms that have been lower quick via the coup.

“She attempted all she may just,” Min Aung Hlaing spoke back.

Suu Kyi’s subsequent court docket look is due on Monday within the capital Naypyidaw. Up to now she has gave the impression best via video hyperlink and as but to be allowed to talk at once to her attorneys.

The junta has cited safety causes for now not permitting her to talk to her attorneys in non-public at a time the army government have now not established regulate of the rustic within the face of day by day protests, moves and renewed insurgencies.

ATTACK ON ARMY

The Kachin Independence Military (KIA) attacked a military put up at Hkamti township within the Sagaing area early on Saturday, the Irrawaddy and Mizzima on-line publications stated. Photos confirmed columns of darkish smoke emerging from the scene.

KIA spokesman Naw Bu informed Reuters he used to be conscious about the assault however may just give no main points. Reuters used to be not able to succeed in a junta spokesman for remark.

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Mizzima stated the website attacked used to be close to a mining undertaking that comes to the military-owned Myanma Financial Holdings Ltd. conglomerate. Unbiased broadcaster DVB stated 3 individuals of the protection forces were wounded and 9 had been captured via the insurgents.

Reuters used to be not able to verify the studies independently.

Because the coup, open warfare resumed between the military and the KIA, which has been combating for higher autonomy for the Kachin other people for some six many years and has voiced give a boost to for anti-junta protesters.

Mizzima stated the military used jets in assaults at the KIA at Hkamti, a the town at the Chindwin river in a faraway area wealthy in jade and gold that lies about 50 km (30 miles) from the border with India.

The military has performed a lot of bombing assaults on KIA positions in fresh weeks and has additionally clashed with ethnic armies within the east and west of Myanmar.

Safety forces have killed no less than 812 other people because the coup, in keeping with the Help Affiliation for Political Prisoners activist team. The army disputes this determine and says no less than two dozen individuals of the protection forces have additionally been killed.

Myanmar media reported {that a} soldier were killed in a capturing within the industrial hub, Yangon, on Saturday.

The military seized energy alleging fraud in a November election gained via Suu Kyi’s Nationwide League for Democracy. The then electoral fee had rejected its accusations. On Friday, native media quoted an reliable of the brand new electoral fee appointed via the junta as announcing there used to be a plan to dissolve the NLD.

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