BKK Post, 27,February 1998. "Romeo

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27,February 1998.
"Romeo and Juliet " love doomed son

Burma's military strongman took the tough step of publicly rejecting his son after he became embroiled in a "Romeo and Juliet " romance with a foreigner he later married, sources said yesterday.
  First Secretary Khin Nyunt on Wednesday disowned his son through a newspaper announcement for committing an " unforgivable act against the wishes of his parents".
  The advertisement, while a common way of lending authenticity and legality to some announcements, is however unusual, as is throws a rift within the family of one of Burma's
most powerful men into the public arena.
 Ye Naing Win's rejection came after he married a Singaporean air hostess, despite his parents' protestations and attempts to split them up.
-AFP