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Subject: Military says Suu kyi is traitor and will be destroyed.
Military says Suu Kyi is traitor and will be destroyed
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Burma's military government said
Tuesday that
Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is a traitor
conspiring with
Western governments, and will be destroyed.
"Looking back at history, all traitors who tried to challenge
or oppose the
(Burmese) military are doomed to face failure and
destruction,'' said an article
in the state-run press.
Press commentaries, usually written by high-ranking
intelligence officers using
pen names, have called Suu Kyi a traitor before. But this
commentary
appeared to go a step further by speaking of "destruction.''
Threats by the military aren't taken lightly by the Burmese
opposition. Suu
Kyi's motorcade was attacked Nov. 9 by a mob that witnesses
said was
organized and paid by the government.
The government has denied the charge.
The military has been blaming Suu Kyi, who leads Burma's
democracy
movement, and her political party for last week's student
demonstrations. The
military has confined Suu Kyi to her home since the protests
began.
The students, who took to the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay
in the largest
show of civil dissent since the democracy uprising of 1988,
denied any links to
Suu Kyi or her party, although some of their goals were the
same.
The students seek an end to police brutality, the right to
form a students union
and more civil liberties. Some called for democracy in Burma,
which has been
ruled by military regimes since 1962.
"Suu Kyi and her colleagues are instigating unrest in order
to create anarchy in
the country,'' Tuesday's commentary said. "Their main
interest is to achieve
awards and assistance from the neocolonialists.''
[FOX, 17 December 1996].
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