The United States came down heavily on military junta of Burma, after a Myanmar court sentenced the popular Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi to another 18 months of house arrest, which the US President, Barack Obama, termed as unjust.

"They are afraid of a 64-year-old woman who probably weighs barely a hundred pounds," the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, PJ Crowley, told reporters at the daily State Department press briefing.