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Junta NLD clash over Women's Day


Bangkok, June 17: Bunna's military junta on Wednesday slammed plans by
the Opposition National League for Democracy to mark the June 19
birthday of its party leader Aung San Sun Kyi as National Women's Day.
The state-controlled media said such plans to commemorate her 53rd
birthday were an insult to patriots and to her late father Aung San, who
helped lead Burma to independence.
Aung San's February 13 birthday is officially commemorated as Bunnese
Children's Day.  Newspapers dubbed Ms Sun Kyi as the ,'veto lady"
because of the influence they said she held within the NLD.  NLD won a
landslide victory in the 1990 elections that were never recognised by
the military.  "It will amount to insulting the parents who slapped the
face of colonialists if the birthday of the Veto Lady was designated as
Burma's Women's Day," said one newspaper. (Reuter)

Asian Age.
18, June, 1998.