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| Monday, 7 July 2003 |
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Junta launches fresh attacks on Suu Kyi, diplomats YANGON, Sunday (AFP)-Myanmar's junta launched vitriolic new attacks on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Yangon's diplomatic community Sunday, in a clear indication it will not back down in the row over her detention. In an ominous sign for hopes of reconciliation in Myanmar, the official press ran a series of commentaries portraying Aung San Suu Kyi as inflexible and under the influence of foreign powers. "Auntie Suu is a willful and hard-headed person liable to rash judgments followed by blind action, in her relations with the present government," said the first commentary, purportedly written by a disenchanted NLD member. In a second article Sunday, it described Aung San Suu Kyi as autocratic, vain and inflexible, and bent on causing trouble during recent political tours around the country - one of which triggered her detention on May 30. "We had at first expected that after visiting one development project after another, she would come to understand and appreciate the extent of the efforts that had been made, and that her attitudes would surely become more flexible to lean towards cooperating with the government," it said. "Sadly, things did not turn out as expected." Another editorial also blasted Yangon's diplomatic community, saying it was interfering in the country's internal business by monitoring the affairs of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). "This matter is not their concern. However... whenever there is the case of members of the NLD; then the embassy cars with white plates are moving about in the streets, small lanes and residential areas making contacts." |
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