President Obama made a statement today on the conviction and sentencing of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, an opposition leader and democracy icon in Myanmar (Burma). She was convicted of breaking her house arrest by harboring an American. Her sentence of three years’ hard labor, was commuted to one and a half years more of house arrest.
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