Suu Kyi 'violated restriction` by accepting books: Myanmar police

YANGON, May 23 Kyodo -
The state-run New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday that Police Col. Win Naing
Tun claimed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi violated terms of her house arrest
by accepting books from an American who had evaded junta police and entered her
home after swimming across a lake.
The newspaper, reporting on Friday's trial session inside the notorious Insein
jail in north Yangon, said: ''When asked whether Daw Aung San Suu Kyi violated
the restriction order by U Nyan Win, lawyer of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, (the
colonel) said she violated the fact that she was ordered not to contact
outsiders by post or by phone. As she accepted books and documents from
outside, she violated the prohibition.''
The intruder, John William Yettaw, reportedly brought written material,
including the ''Book of Morman'' and a letter written by his daughter, to Suu
Kyi's residence.
Suu Kyi, 63, and two companions are being tried for allegedly violating the
terms of Suu Kyi's house arrest because Yettaw entered her tightly guarded
family compound.
Governments around the world have condemned the trial, which is apparently
designed to keep the junta from having to renew yet again Suu Kyi's house
arrest.
The Nobel Peace laureate has been confined to her home for more than 13 of the
last 19 years, including six consecutive years before she was taken to Insein
Prison earlier this month.
==Kyodo