Yangon - Myanmar authorities charged 14 members of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Friday who called for her freedom on her 63rd birthday last month. The 14, who shouted slogans and released 63 sparrows outside their party headquarters on June 19, were charged with destabilizing the state and forming an illegal gathering. Witnesses said the protest was quickly broken up when officials spilled out of government cars that whizzed to the scene. Suu Kyi heads the NLD, although she has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest. Suu Kyi, the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been in near complete isolation since May 2003, after government thugs attacked her and her supporters in Depayin township, central Myanmar, leaving several dead. One May 27, Myanmar's junta extended her house...
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