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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:59:51 +0000
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Subject: Hindu: Junta's Men Refused to Attack Suu Kyi
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Organization: Forum for Democracy and Human Rights
19th March 1996
JUNTA HIRELINGS REFUSED TO ATTACK SUU KYI
BANGKOK, March 18. Myanmar pro-democracy leader, Ms Aung San Suu
Kyi and her followers escaped a pelting with tomatoes at a public ceremony
when the young men the Myanmar authorities hired to do the job refused to
carry it out, Ms Suu Kyi said today.
The incident took place at a memorial ceremony for the former Prime Minister,
U Nu on the first anniversary of his death, February 14, Ms. Suu Kyi wrote in
her weekly column in The Mainichi daily news of Japan, seen in Bangkok today.
Relations between Myanmar's military government and Ms. Suu Kyi have
become increasingly acrimonious over the last several months, dashing hopes for
a dialogue between the two sides since her release from six year arrest last July.
Ms. Suu Kyi has always advocated non-violence. She said that some of the
young men hired to pelt her with tomatoes informed her of the plan, which she
said was orchestrated by leaders of the Union Solidarity and Development
Association (USDA).
The USDA is ostensibly a Government-sponsored social welfare organisation,
but most observers say the military uses it as a political tool and its members as
shock troops at demonstrations. Ms. Suu Kyi said hundreds of USDA members
gathered around a Toyota filled with crates of tomatoes outside the ceremony.
But nothing happened perhaps because those who had been sent to create
trouble had no stomach for the task," she said. _ AP
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