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Paula hancocks joins us from sydney, australia, with more on this. this is a crushing blow to suu kyi and her supporters. >> the assumption is this is 100% politically motivated. they took power by force on february 1st deposing that democratically elected government headed up by aung san suu kyi, they want to keep them behind bars to make sure they are not seen in public, that they can no longer be part of any political system in the country so that the military can consolidate their power. what we saw today was four years for aung san suu kyi and these were among the lesser charges laid agai...