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Burma General Bashes Laureate
Saturday, October 19, 1996 11:38 am EDT
RANGOON, Burma (AP) -- A top general of
Burma's military regime says the Nobel
committee has tried to give credibility to
political dissidents by awarding the peace
prize to the ``puppets'' of Western nations.
Gen. Tin Oo, a senior member of the regime,
did not mention any particular peace
laureate, but his remarks Friday in a speech
marking Armed Forces Day clearly included
Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu
Kyi.
Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
while she was under house arrest. Her party
won national elections in 1990 but the
regime never allowed parliament to convene.
Suu Kyi was released from house arrest last
year, but the government recently has
tightened its control of her activities. On
Saturday, troops continued to block roads to
her home, preventing her from holding a
regular party meeting for the fourth
straight weekend.
The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize went to two
critics of Indonesia's rule in East Timor,
Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo and exiled
resistance leader Jose Ramos-Horta.
Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese
colony in 1975.
``The Nobel Peace Prize has been given to
those who are opposing the government,''
official media quoted Tin Oo as saying. ``It
has been used as a political instrument for
incitement and also to popularize their
puppets in the international arena.''
The prize was simply part of ``a
multi-dimensional war to dominate smaller
countries using political, economic,
diplomatic and psychological means,'' he
said.
Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been under
military rule since 1962. Troops made a
bloody crackdown on 1988 pro-democracy
protests that had carried Suu Kyi, the
daughter of the country's independence hero,
Aung San, to prominence.
? Copyright 1996 The Associated Press
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