The Irrawaddy reports on tuesday that the verdict was delivered at 11:50 a.m. Suu Kyi was initially sentenced to three years imprisonment, but later the court changed her sentence to 18 months to be served under house arrest. According to journalists, Burmese Home Minister Maung Oo entered the courtroom after the three-year sentence was announced and read aloud a special order from junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe stating that as Suu Kyi is the daughter of national hero Gen Aung San, her sentence should be reduced to 18 months and that the sentence should be suspended.
Along with the world leaders' outrage and condemnaion on the Burmese junta, Harn Lay's cartoon undeniably reflects the very true circumstances currently going on in Burma's political saga, nevertheless intended to be viewed in sarcastic manner; they are, at the moment to me, utterly not laughable !
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