EBO BURMA NEWS, 5 JULY 2003
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Myanmar junta launches new attack
on detained Suu Kyi
detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday,
in an insulting
commentary that indicated it is unlikely to release
her any time soon.
The article in the official press was the
regime's latest attempt to
portray the National League for Democracy (NLD)
leader as the instigator of
violence in northern
"Auntie Suu is a willful
and hard-headed person liable to rash judgments
followed by blind action, in her relations with
the present government," it
said.
"Nevertheless, whatever the provocation,
responsible leaders of the present
government, preferring to act with forbearance, and
on the basis of give and
take, have always chosen to take action in
moderation."
"To put it frankly, from the time our
NLD party leader Auntie Suu who as an
ordinary housewife ventured into the
circumstance has been in her favour," it said.
Saturday's commentary included photos of
Suu Kyi taken when she was
released from house arrest in 1995 and held a rare
meeting with the nation's
ruler Senior General Than Shwe.
The photos showed her smiling and shaking
hands with Than Shwe and sitting
with the general in what was billed by the
caption as "a family dinner".
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surrounded
the clothes off her supporters and beating
them mercilessly with bats, rods
and spears, dissidents testified Friday.
The testimony by witnesses Khin Zaw and Wunna Maung before a Thai Senate
panel was the most comprehensive and detailed
yet of the May 30 violence that
led to the Nobel laureate's arrest and the
on her pro-democracy party.
Their statements also lend credibility to
other opposition claims that up to
70 people were killed in the May 30
violence.
The men, both of whom are members Suu
Kyi's National League for Democracy
party, said they were in the convoy and
witnessed the nighttime attack outside
Depayin village in northern
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