"The year, 2003, will be remembered for two events: the Depayin massacre and the Burma road map. In May, the junta permitted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party to travel into northern Burma and engage in political activity; then, on May 30, as her party was peacefully returning to Rangoon, it was viciously attacked. The military rulers offered an unbelievable and unacceptable explanation of what had occurred. They accused the victims, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), of initiating the attack to which the people who support the government retaliated..."