Bangkok Post News (15/9/98)

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News headlines:

1):Myanmar junta says Aung San Suu Kyi a bad mother and bad citizen

2):Reopening date moved up


1):Myanmar junta says Aung San Suu Kyi a bad mother and bad citizen


Burma junta unleashed a volley of criticism at opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi Monday, saying she was a bad mother and not even a Myanmar
citizen.


The Nobel peace laureate should be deported, said a commentary in the 

official Mirror daily, a Burmese-language organ of the junta.


"This is not only my personal wish, but the ardent desire of all 

parents, as well as the people," said the commentary, by a writer 

identified only as "a mother."Myanmar women traditionally devoted their
attention to looking after their families and should continue to do so,
it added.


"In keeping with this tradition, Myanmar women have little time to 

dabble in politics," it said.


"We were totally discouraged when she started to make trouble, 

disrupting school examinations, and we began to wonder why the 

authorities were being so magnaminous to such a trouble-maker," the 

commentary added, saying the junta should take action against the 

National League for Democracy (NLD) leader "once and for all.


"Daw (honorific) Aung San Suu Kyi, alias Mrs. Michael Villiancourt Aris,
who is a foreigner with pretensions of being a citizen, is blatantly
causing trouble for the people and if the government continues to condone
her actions it will be like looking on with arms folded at the suffering
of the people," it said.


The junta frequently cites Aung San Suu Kyi marriage to Briton 

Michael Aris as evidence that she is not committed to Myanmar. Aris and
their two children live in Britain.


The British embassy here Monday denied Aung San Suu Kyi was a British 

national.


"We wish to make it categorically clear she is not, and never has been, a
British citizen," it said in a statement.


However, the charge was repeated Monday in another junta organ, the 

English-language New Light of Myanmar daily. Dual nationality is illegal
in Myanmar."Mrs Michael Aris, a Myanmar citizen, became a British subject
out of her own wish," it said in another signed commentary.


"It is no wonder that with her reliance on the West, she is now engaged
in subversive acts to undermine the sovereignty of Myanmar and hand the
country independence over to the West bloc."Yangon was quiet Monday but
foreign diplomats said riot police continued to seal off the Hlaing
university campus, site of recent student unrest, and were deployed
around the NLD headquarters.


The police, carrying shields and batons, stayed in the shadows of other
buildings near the Yangon NLD complex, they added. They were also
equipped with mobile barriers which could be used to quickly seal off the
downtown road.


2):Reopening date moved up

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</underline>Burma will reopen the Mae Sot-Myawaddy border checkpoint
tomorrow, a day ahade of the scheduled date, Aumy Commander-in-Chidf Gen
Chettha Thanajaro annouced.

The checkpoint and the Thai-Burmaes Friendship Bridge were closed onApril
14 after the Burmese government ordered the suspension of cross border
trade through checkpoints in Mae Sot on November 28 last year.

Gen chetta said Rangoon had agreed to expedite the reopening of the
checkpoint for border trade and transport from September 17 to September
16, the first day of his visit to Burma.


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