NEWS- Myanmar Junta, Opposition Dis

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NOTE: Do they really know or care whom is really exploiting Burma as
long as they make maoney.

Myanmar Junta, Opposition Dispute on Women's Day

            Reuters
            17-JUN-98

            BANGKOK, June 17 (Reuters) - Myanmar's
            military junta on Wednesday slammed plans
            by the opposition National League for
            Democracy (NLD) to mark the June 19
            birthday of its party leader Aung San Suu
            Kyi as National Women's Day. 

            State controlled media said such plans to
            commemorate her 53rd birthday were an
            insult to patriots and to her late father Aung
            San, who helped lead Myanmar to
            independence. 

            Aung San's February 13 birthday is officially
            commemorated as Myanmar Children's Day. 

            Newspapers dubbed Suu Kyi as the ``veto
            lady'' because of the autocratic influence
            they said she held within the NLD. Her party
            won a landslide victory in 1990 elections that
            were never recognised by the military. 

            ``It will amount to an insult to the mother and
            father who slapped the face of colonialists if
            attempts were made to designate the
            birthday of the Veto Lady as Myanmar's
            Women's Day,'' said one newspaper. 

            NLD sources in Yangon said they were
            planning to celebrate Suu Kyi's birthday and
            designate it as National Women's Day. 

            The newspaper added that recent interviews
            given by Suu Kyi to journalists at her
            lakeside residence in Yangon showed that
            she was a working with colonialists to
            destroy the country. 

            ``I dare say that she is only a cohort of
            neo-colonialists who are attempting to
            destroy Myanmar, to control her and to
            exploit the country's natural resources,'' it
            added.