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Myanmar junta says Aung San Suu Kyi a bad mother and bad citizen
Mon 14 Sep 98 - 06:27 GMT
YANGON, Sept 14 (AFP) - Myanmar's junta unleashed a volley of criticism at
opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi Monday, saying she was a bad mother and not even a
Myanmar
citizen.
The Nobel peace laureate should be deported, said a commentary in the official
Mirror daily, a
Burmese-language organ of the junta.
"This is not only my personal wish, but the ardent desire of all parents, as
well as the people,"
said the commentary, by a writer identified only as "a mother."
Myanmar women traditionally devoted their attention to looking after their
families and should
continue to do so, it added.
"In keeping with this tradition, Myanmar women have little time to dabble in
politics," it said.
"We were totally discouraged when she started to make trouble, disrupting
school
examinations, and we began to wonder why the authorities were being so
magnaminous to such
a trouble-maker," the commentary added, saying the junta should take action
against the
National League for Democracy (NLD) leader "once and for all."
"Daw (honorific) Aung San Suu Kyi, alias Mrs. Michael Villiancourt Aris, who
is a foreigner
with pretensions of being a citizen, is blatantly causing trouble for the
people and if the
government continues to condone her actions it will be like looking on with
arms folded at the
suffering of the people," it said.
The junta frequently cites Aung San Suu Kyi's marriage to Briton Michael Aris
as evidence that
she is not committed to Myanmar. Aris and their two children live in Britain.
The British embassy here Monday denied Aung San Suu Kyi was a British
national.
"We wish to make it categorically clear she is not, and never has been, a
British citizen," it said
in a statement.
However, the charge was repeated Monday in another junta organ, the English-
language New
Light of Myanmar daily. Dual nationality is illegal in Myanmar.
"Mrs Michael Aris, a Myanmar citizen, became a British subject out of her own
wish," it said in
another signed commentary.
"It is no wonder that with her reliance on the West, she is now engaged in
subversive acts to
undermine the sovereignty of Myanmar and hand the country' independence over
to the West
bloc."
Yangon was quiet Monday but foreign diplomats said riot police continued to
seal off the Hlaing
university campus, site of recent student unrest, and were deployed around the
NLD
headquarters.
The police, carrying shields and batons, stayed in the shadows of other
buildings near the
Yangon NLD complex, they added. They were also equipped with mobile barriers
which could
be used to quickly seal off the downtown road.
At least 200 riot police were stationed around the Hlaing campus, where
students have been
staging anti-government demonstrations over the past two weeks, but no
incidents were
reported.
The junta has effectively thwarted plans by the opposition to convene a
parliament this month
by detaining most of its members, according to foreign diplomats.
The NLD claims 700 members and supporters have been detained over the last
week, but
some foreign envoys said fewer than 200 detentions had been confirmed.
The opposition won 1990 polls by a landslide, with the NLD alone taking 382 of
the 485 seats.
But the junta, which won only 10 seats, has refused to relinquish power,
saying it is gradually
moving towards democracy.
The number of NLD and other opposition members of parliament has since fallen
to an
unknown level due to deaths and resignations.
The NLD has vowed to convene the parliament elected in 1990 but the junta has
said the move
would be illegal.