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The Irrawaddy News Magazine
September 28, 2017
Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi stands with the Myanmar's Defence Minister General Than Shwe (C) and former prime minister Khin Nyunt (R) in Yangon in this September 1994 file photo. Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, should be out promoting democracy and not underÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
January 28, 2017
But the intruder, John William Yettaw, who had swum across Inya Lake to reach Suu Kyi's house, insisted that he be allowed to rest for a while ... That is how Daw Khin Khin Win described the sudden arrival of the American visitor John Yettaw, who claimed that he was sent by God to protect Suu Kyi from aÃâà...
Frontier Myanmar
November 22, 2016
Two weeks before the scheduled release of Aung San Suu Kyi from her latest period of house arrest, an American Mormon, Mr John William Yettaw, 53, swam across to her residential compound. He had prophesied that she would be assassinated and wanted to warn her of the supposed threat to her life.
CNN International
January 18, 2013
Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army who helped negotiate Burma's independence from Britain. He was assassinated on ... This is in response to an incident earlier in the month, when American John Yettaw swam uninvited to Suu Kyi's lakeside house. If convicted she faces upÃâà...
Newsweek
August 21, 2009
How was a retired bus driver from Missouri able to make a flipper-clad, two-kilometer swim to the heavily guarded house of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, one of the world's ... "I have to be careful what I say or it will hurt the people of Myanmar," he explained, using Burma's other name.
CNN
August 16, 2009
John William Yettaw was taken to hospital in Bangkok shortly after arriving aboard a military aircraft with Sen. ... Yettaw, 53, a former military serviceman from Falcon, Missouri, was sentenced last week for a May 3 incident when he swam across a lake to the house of Suu Kyi and stayed, uninvited, for twoÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 11, 2009
Slowly a different picture began to emerge, of a deeply religious man battling private demons. According to his fourth wife, Betty Yettaw, he was planning to write a book on "forgiveness and resilience" and wanted to interview Mrs Suu Kyi. It appears the project was part of his response to the death of one ofÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 4, 2009
Critics say Burma's military regime has seized upon the bizarre intrusion as an excuse to keep Ms Suu Kyi jailed through next year's scheduled elections the ... Mr Yettaw, of Falcon, Missouri, testified that he swam to Ms Suu Kyi's house to warn her that he had a vision that she would be assassinated.
TIME
May 19, 2009
Is John Yettaw crazy or just eccentric? The answer is not quite clear, as the Missouri man remains in a Burmese prison charged with a head-scratching nighttime swim that has imperiled one of the world's best-known democracy figures. Yettaw, 53, is accused of strapping on homemade flippers and illegallyÃâà...
BBC News
May 14, 2009
John Yettaw is a 53-year-old American who was sentenced to seven years in prison but then deported after swimming to the lakeside home of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San ... A Vietnam veteran, from Falcon, Missouri, Mr Yettaw is also said to suffer from diabetes and heart trouble.
CNN
May 13, 2009
The government said the presence of the American, John William Yettaw, in the lakeside home violated the conditions of Suu Kyi's house arrest. ... to charge Aung San Suu Kyi for a baseless crime," Clinton said at the State Department in Washington, referring to Myanmar by its former name of Burma.
