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(Reuters) – Put on trial by the generals who overthrew her elected government in a coup that cut short democratic reforms she had fought for decades to bring about, Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison. She was convicted of incitement and violations of a law on natural disasters in the first verdict in more than a dozen criminal cases filed against her since the Feb. C1 military takeover. Suu Kyi is 76 years old. Just 14 months before the coup, she had travelled to the U.N. International Court of Justice in the Hague to defend those …