Aung San Suu Kyi faces more charges as UN urges reconciliation

Deposed Myanmar leader faces long prison term as country sinks deeper into violence amid a new COVID health emergency.

Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing four additional criminal charges, filed in a court in the country’s second-biggest city Mandalay, according to her lawyer, as the United Nations called for reconciliation in the violence-wracked Southeast Asian nation. Aung San Suu Kyi’s legal team had little information about the latest charges, except that they relate to corruption and that two were also levelled at Min Thu, a former minister in her government, lawyer Min Min Soe told the Reuters news agency on Monday. “There are corruption charges. We do not know why do they sue? Or for what reasons? We will find out about it,” she said.