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Suu Kyi faces corruption charges
The Myanmar junta has hit deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption charges over claims she accepted illegal payments of gold and more than half a million dollars in cash, state media reported Thursday.
The country has been in  turmoil  since  the  generals  ousted  Suu  Kyi  on  February  1,  with nearly 850 civilians killed in a brutal crackdown by security forces on near-daily protests  against  the  coup.
The  75-year-old Nobel laureate, who has been in custody since the coup, is facing a raft of wide-ranging criminal charges,  including  sedition  and  breaching a colonial-era secrecy law.
The latest charges relate to allegations by the former Yangon region chief minister that Suu Kyi il-legally  accepted  $600,000  in  cash  from him along with around 11 kilograms of gold.
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