But a short time later, the government announced that the country's leader, Senior General Than Shwe, had ordered the sentence commuted to 1 1/2 years under house arrest.

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These included the arrest and trial of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and the creation of a United Nations Convention against Torture.

BBC: You are in: UK

Previously, it had insisted that Serbia must first arrest General Ratko Mladic, indicted by the war-crimes tribunal.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo's future

It may be that the arrest of General Pinochet is justifiable in international law.

ECONOMIST: General discussion