Daw Suu"s "Trickery" documented

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How can we get a copy?

We'd be happy to rush to place our orders -- can Okkar help?  

BRC-J's library has "Sky Full of Lies" etc. -- we definitely need this as well.

Any assistance welcome.

With metta,
Visakha and Ken
 



AFP: SLORC TO PUBLISH BOOK ON OPPOSITION "TRICKERY"
May 14, 1997
     
Burma is publishing a book documenting the "political trickery" of
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to an advertisement carried in
the state-run press on Wednesday.
     
The book, a compilation of Burmese-language newspaper commentaries, 
is to appear before the end of the month, the ad placed by the government 
News and Periodicals Enterprise said.
     
Written in an uncharacteristic Western style, the ad in the English-language
New Light of Myanmar advised readers that copies were limited and they
should rush to place their orders.  
     
 The goal of the book was "to place on record with historical evidences ...
the characteristics of those who emerged at the turn of Myanmar political
history and practised political trickery," the ad said.
     
It was apparently referring to Aung San Suu Kyi's emergence in 1988 as a
leader of the pro-democracy movement.
     
Her National League for Democracy (NLD) went on to win general elections in
May 1990 although she was held under house arrest for six years until July 1995.
     
"Who is Aung San Suu Kyi? Is she an advocate of democracy or peace?      Is
she a person who disrupts peace and stability? ... Is she making dollars by
engaging in democracy show-job?" the ad asked rhetorically.
     
"While trudging along the path of Myanma (Burma) politics, the person
unknowingly loses the way. To keep the public informed, assessment is
thus made on where she is heading," it said.
     
An editorial in the New Light of Myanmar on Wednesday warned the     public
to "beware of traitorous maggots" who sought to disrupt Burma's progress
toward development and destabilize the nation.
     
The editorial contained a fresh attack on foreigners and their "stooges"
inside the country who were said to be interfering in domestic affairs,
seeking to cause conflicts between races and between religions.
     
Burma's military rulers have frequently accused Aung San Suu Kyi of
putting foreign interests above those of Burma through her contacts with 
foreign embassies and international organizations and because she is married
to a British national.
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