Senior members of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) hold a candlelight vigil at the party's headquarters in Yangon on May 27, 2009 as they mark the 19th anniversary of their election victory annulled by Myanmar's ruling junta. Meanwhile the US man who faces up to five years in jail on charges of breaching Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest told the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi on May 27 that he swam to the Myanmar democracy icon's home to warn her of a divine vision about a "terrorist" plot to assassinate her, her party said. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

Senior members of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) hold a candlelight vigil at the party's headquarters in Yangon on May 27, 2009 as they mark the 19th anniversary of their election victory annulled by Myanmar's ruling junta. Meanwhile the US man who faces up to five years in jail on charges of breaching Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest told the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi on May 27 that he swam to the Myanmar democracy icon's home to warn her of a divine vision about a "terrorist" plot to assassinate her, her party said.

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