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27 May 2009

NLD Headquarters

Statement 14/05/09

The following is the complete statement which Daw ASSK submitted to the court in

defense of herself against the criminal charges based on the Criminal Act 256.

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1). Regarding the case against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now being accused of

having iolated the State Protection Act against Subversive Elements Paragraph #22,

and the accomplices Daw Khin Khin Win (Father - U Tin Ohn), Ma Win Ma Ma (Father -

U Nyan Linn), and Mr John WIlliam Yettaw - three of whom are charged in accordance

with the aforementioned Para #22 and Criminal Code 109 - is the case filed on 11 May

2009 by Police Lt-Colonel Zaw Min Aung of Police Special Branch (Information Division

of the Police Department, Home Ministry).

2). From my co-habitant Daw Khin Khin Win, I learned indirectly about the fact that Mr

John william Yettaw entered my residential compound on 30 November 2008.

On 4 December 2008, I reported to the authorities through my physician Dr Tin Myo

Win when he came for my (routine) medical check-up. The authorities did not bother to

make any inquiry whatsoever about this report with us. Nor was I aware that they took

any action at all about this incident. I was never told to report immediately such

intrusion to my residential compound to the authorities in the event these things

happen.

Only in the morning of 4 May 2009, did I discover Mr John William Yettaw arrived at my

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6). I am being charged with the State Protection Act against Subversive Elements #22

for having allegedly violated the restrictions and limitations contained therein.

A). It is more than obvious that I violated none of the restrictions or limitations, based

on the statements/answers made by the prosecution witnesses.

B). The prosecution claimed my original restrictions (or curtailment of citizens' right)

were based on 1974 Burma Socialist Programme Party Constitution. However, this 1974

Constitution was null, void and dead on the very day the Armed Forces staged the coup

in 1988. No legality could be extracted out of this dead constitution, and restrictions

placed on me are illegal.

7). The primary and root cause of the current incident is the breach of security or

neglect of security duties by the authorities, and yet no action has been taken against

those in charge of my security.

Therefore, subjecting me to this trial (against this backdrop) is an act of whimsical and

biased prosecution against me.

8). I submit that I am NOT guilty of the crime that the prosecution has accused me of

committing."