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View all search resultsJunta says open to negotiations with Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi, 77, has been detained since the generals toppled her government in a coup on Feb. 1 of last year and plunged the Southeast Asian nation into chaos.
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yanmar's military chief said on Friday that the junta was open to negotiations with ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the crisis sparked by its coup after her trials in a junta-run court concluded.
Suu Kyi, 77, has been detained since the generals toppled her government in a coup on Feb. 1 of last year and plunged the Southeast Asian nation into chaos.
She has been jailed for 17 years for a clutch of charges and faces decades more in prison if convicted on a raft of other charges she is battling in a closed junta court.
"After the legal processes against her according to the law are finished, we are going to consider [negotiations] based on her response," junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said in a statement.
Journalists have been barred from the proceedings, her lawyers gagged from speaking to the media, and the junta has given no indication of when her trials might conclude.
The military regime's cases against Suu Kyi were proceeding according to law, the junta chief said.
He also cited the case of South Korean president Park Geun-hye who "was also sentenced according to the law" for corruption in 2018.
