Mae Sot (Mizzima) - Thai security officials on Sunday took pictures and kept a watched on participants of a peaceful demonstration in protest of the charges against Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the ruling military junta.

The small but vocal gathering marched for about 200m on Thai soil from the Moei River past the Immigration office alongside the Thai-Burmese Friendship Bridge, between Mea Sot and Myawaddy towns.

Thai military and police kept a watched and took pictures of the protesters, who made a brief speech at the crowded market place of Mea Sot town in Tak province of Thailand, before dispersing.

While the soldiers hung back from the main group, photographing them from a distance of 60-70m, the police were closer with some blatantly photographing the marchers, many of whom were foreigners.

The small group about 75 people marched in protest against Burma’s military ruler for charging Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and conducting a trial against her at the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon.

On Friday, the special court in Insein accepted the charges against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. She was charged for breaching her detention law, by accepting an uninvited American man, who allegedly swam across the Innya Lake and entered into her house.

The protestors called the charges unacceptable and called on the government to stop the trial and to release her along with other political prisoners as soon as possible.