LEE KUAN YEW ON BURMA?S "STUPID" GENERALS

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Summary: "ASEAN should not have admitted Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam into the organization in the 1990?s, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told visiting EAP DAS Christensen and the Ambassador October 16. Expressing his scorn for Burma?s leaders, MM Lee called them "dense" and "stupid." After discussing China?s influence over Burma, he suggested that Indonesian President Yudhoyono, as a former general, could potentially be an interlocutor with the regime..."

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US Embassy, Singapore, via Wikileaks

Date of Publication: 

2007-10-19

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2010-12-24

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English

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