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             Copyright 1999 British Broadcasting Corporation
                      BBC Summary of World Broadcasts

                       December 15, 1999, Wednesday

SECTION: Part 3 Asia-Pacific; INDONESIA; FOREIGN RELATIONS; FE/D3718/B

LENGTH: 1694 words

HEADLINE: Government-run paper attacks "democracy princess" Suu Kyi

SOURCE: Source: 'Myanmar Alin', Rangoon, in Burmese 30 Nov 99 p 4 via LEXIS
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The government-run newspaper 'Myanmar Alin'has carried a strong attack on
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Referring to an interview with Suu Kyi
that was broadcast on the Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma radio, the
paper said Suu Kyi had been fabricating accusations against the government.
Far from being guilty of economic mismanagement, the paper said, the
government's socioeconomic achievements are considerable, with investments
in the nation under the market economy at 7bn dollars and an annual growth
rate of 6 per cent.

Excerpts from article by Pauk Sa entitled: "Hoping to plant the flag atop
the pole" , carried by Burmese newspaper 'Myanmar Alin' on 30th November

With due respects to all the people in Myanmar [Burma] what Pauk Sa would
like to start this article off with is about that unparalleled democracy
princess [Aung San Suu Kyi] who is being infected with, I believe, a malady
of ill-will that makes her unable to eat or sleep unless she comes up with
some newly fabricated accusation and criticism every day to hurl at the
defence services government. It seems she gets some relief from that malady
only when she unleashes some putrid air out of her system by spouting lies
and untruths every day. Thinking about that in a way makes Pauk Sa pity
her.

But after listening to an interview between 'Time'magazine and the
democracy princess carried by the imperialist-influenced radio station, DVB
[Democratic Voice of Burma broadcast from Oslo], at 2100 on 13th November,
Pauk Sa disgustedly realizes that the problem she poses is big. As soon as
she was asked a question by 'Time' she talked ceaselessly. Pauk Sa will
recount that for all the people to know.

This was what she said: "We are accused of not saying anything good about
the government. Well, how can I say something good about them if they
haven't done anything good? The reason the economy is declining in the
country today is because of the government. The military clique does not
know how to handle the economy. Companies are withdrawing from Burma
because of mismanagement by the government. There is no such thing as
long-term economic development here. We are facing so many problems because
we have a bad government. That is also the reason why we have been calling
for economic sanctions and a halt to assistance. When a democracy
government takes shape we will have close and friendly relations with our
neighbouring countries. It will be better then."

Well, how was that?... How can that be? Our government has built roads that
extend thousands of miles, and more than 100 bridges spanning rivers,
including the Bo Myat Tun Bridge inaugurated a few days ago, and also over
100 dams and irrigation structures.

The achievements weren't too small in the education sector either.
Universities, colleges, vocational training schools, and primary, middle,
and high schools were all expanded for studies. Everybody knows that basic
computer classes were introduced at the primary level and multimedia
classes at the middle and high schools so as to be on par with
international education standards.

Success in agriculture is evident by the three cropping seasons now in
place instead of one before. And peasants are becoming so prosperous that
motorcycles can be seen noisily travelling along trails once used by carts.
There are many villages with new brick buildings and shiny corrugated roofs
now. There are also competing video theatres in villages even. One can also
witness radios, televisions, video decks, and cassette tape players in
village homes. The gardens in the compound of peasant homes are flourishing
with fruit trees and greens. In addition, there are indications that
mechanized farming era is close at hand. We can see farming machines,
tractors, harvesters, and winnowing machines. Prospects are good to build a
new agricultural sector in the nation because virgin, fallow, and wetlands
that had been not been farmed for many years are being worked on for
cultivation by local entrepreneurs.

Investments in the nation under the market economy have now reached 7bn
dollars. Many job opportunities have been opened up by the vast market
economy and the people have also come to learn new skills because of it.
The nation's economy is developing at an annual rate of 6 per cent.

Similarly, ancient religious structures are being protected and renovated
to ensure that cultural, religious, and national traditions are maintained
and carried forward. Noble deeds of providing food, medicines, and garments
to the monks are being carried out every day, month, and year to fulfil all
their needs so that their tasks relating to the propagation of Buddhism can
be performed. It was so good to see the government and the people working
together in the installation of a new finial for the Shwedagon Pagoda.

On top of that, armed nationality groups, which have been waging armed
struggles in successive eras, have declared peace and are now actively
working together with the local populace in the tasks to build the nation
and develop the local regions. Today, songs of peace by the people of
different nationalities permeate the border areas. These were areas where
guns were fired, people were killed, and things got burned down to ash for
more than 40 years in the past. Schools, clinics, hospitals, offices,
television relay stations, electrical power stations, hotels, department
stores, and factories have all cropped up overnight as if in a dream. Farms
where substitute crops for poppy were planted are lush with growth and can
delightfully be seen like a huge emerald green carpet being laid down. Mong
La region has already been declared an opium free zone.

Doesn't the democracy princess see all these things? Does she see them but
truly believes that there is nothing good about them? If that is the case
then what is good enough for her?

What are the development and betterment plans for the country and the
people that her Oxford brain has worked out? Does she plan to build the
country with ideas of those long-nosed great foreign experts?...

The democracy princess is so blatant about her lies that she dares to claim
that it was the government's mismanagement that made the foreign companies
withdraw from Myanmar. What Pauk Sa and all the other people in Burma feel
and understand is that it is the democracy princess who has prevented
investments from coming to Myanmar. The international imperialist clique or
the great mentor of the democracy princess has been calling on others not
to invest in Myanmar and to withdraw investments if they have done so. It
has also been using pressure to stop international investors from coming
in.

The international imperialist clique and the unparalleled democracy
princess have been closely colluding in a well thought out scheme to
obstruct, object, and interfere with investments coming to Myanmar as well
as to get investments out of our country. This is quite evident. Pauk Sa
pities that democracy princess who has to show off that she is someone of
authority by remarking about mismanagement by the government.

I truly am sorry that she has made remarks about mismanagement by
government just to act big. Let me explain what I mean. The democracy hut
[NLD headquarters] is deserted and dirty with crows around and it looks
more like a cemetery or an abandoned public guesthouse. To correct the
situation and bring people there, they have been distributing vitamins,
sugar, and salt to about 50 children of their party [National League for
Democracy] members. What happened was despite vitamins, sugar, and salt
being distributed, the children did not gain any weight. The democracy
princess wasn't happy with the situation so she gave a speech to the
parents. She said the sugar distributed wasn't meant for the adults to brew
coffee, and that the vitamins should be fed to the children and not resold
on the market. She gave a warning that it would be the responsibility of
the adults if the children weren't seen to be gaining weight. Some of the
mothers got frightened and fed vitamins to their children. But instead of
following the direction that suggested a spoonful every day, they fed the
children seven spoonfuls daily to make them fat. They had to secretly visit
the clinics nearby when the children got into trouble. Can you believe
that? In addition, the NLD vice-chairman suggested an idea to prevent the
sale of vitamins and parents were told to bring along the old vitamin
bottle if they wanted a new one. The usual scene on vitamin distribution
days now is problems arising with mothers who could not bring back the
bottles.

Just think about it. The distribution of vitamins for children takes place
only once a week and only 50 mothers are involved. Pauk Sa pities the
democracy princess who isn't even able to facilitate and manage a small
task like that but has the brazen audacity to hurl false accusations about
mismanagement by the defence services government which in fact had been
efficient enough to realize socioeconomic and political developments of the
whole country and all the people within a short time.

There is something more. Pauk Sa was also very disappointed that the
democracy princess did not even have the basic economic outlook on how to
utilize and extract national resources in our country. She has perhaps been
using the "science of democratic prediction" to make a definitive forecast
that there can be no long-term economic development in Myanmar.

To sum up, what Pauk Sa would like to say is that the democracy princess
will continue to be passionate about using the phrase, "when our democratic
government is in place" and since she is infected with a malady of ill
will, she will continue to call for sanctions and a halt to assistance
while making up lies to slander the government.

Yes, it is true that the unparalleled democracy princess will continue to
come up with well concocted schemes, and like in a contest to see who can
plant the flag first atop the pole, she will be relentless in carrying out
her destructive activities to gain power.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH