FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi listens to Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 24, 2019. Fred Dufour/Pool via REUTERS
YANGON (Reuters) - As Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi arrived at a Yangon court recently to face charges of defaming Myanmar's military in Facebook posts, the ailing filmmaker was greeted by a crowd of activists dressed in blue, the colour of prison uniforms.
The charges against Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi - as well as against satirical performers, journalists and a Buddhist monk - have drawn criticism of government leader Aung San Suu Kyi, already facing international opprobrium over an army-led campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority that the United Nations said constituted crimes against humanity and possibly genocide.
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