YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung  San Suu Kyi was charged yesterday with breaking the terms of  her house arrest and faces up to five years in jail after an  American intruder sneaked into her lakeside home, her party  said.

Opposition activists denounced her trial, set to begin on  Monday, as a ploy by the junta in the former Burma to keep Suu  Kyi, 63, sidelined ahead of elections in 2010. The charges stem from a bizarre incident involving U.S.  citizen John William Yettaw, who, according to Myanmar’s state  media, claimed to have swum across Inya Lake in Yangon and  spent two days in Suu Kyi’s compound earlier this month. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was deeply  troubled by the “baseless” new charges against the Nobel Peace  laureate and would raise the issue with Myanmar’s ally China  and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).