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Burma Gov't Knocks Suu Kyi 


Tuesday, July 1, 1997 


RANGOON, Burma (AP) -- Burma's military government accused pro-democracy 
leader Aung San Suu Kyi of being a puppet manipulated by Washington in a 
commentary published in state-run newspapers Tuesday. 

The article continued a war of words opened last week when Burma's military 
intelligence accused the United States of funding groups the regime claims are 
plotting terrorist attacks. 

Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent campaign for 
democracy, a year after her National League for Democracy overwhelmingly won 
parliamentary elections. The ruling military council never honored the result. 


Tuesday's commentary said Suu Kyi was a puppet of President Clinton, former 
Rep. Stephen Solarz of New York and former U.S. Ambassador Burton Levin. 

Suu Kyi ``has no prospects of becoming a leader'' of Burma, said the article, 
which called Suu Kyi's party ``a traitorous group'' that is ``enslaved by the 
United States.'' 

Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which voted to admit 
Burma despite a call by Suu Kyi to bar it from membership, received praise for 
giving Suu Kyi ``zero status.'' 

The military government freed Suu Kyi from six years of house arrest in 1995. 
But for more than a year, her liberties have been cut back and hundreds of her 
supporters have been arrested. 

To protest the repression of Burma's pro-democracy movement, the Clinton 
administration imposed economic sanctions in April to prevent new investment 
in Burma by U.S. companies. 

On Friday, Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt, the head of military intelligence, claimed 
Washington was funding democracy groups who were plotting to kill government 
leaders and bomb foreign embassies. 

Washington flatly denied the charge.