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2003-06-06 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Steve White 2003-06-06 01:11 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Stratfor was speculating that this action might have been done by the regional leadership who want no part of even going through the motions with Aung.

Whether the high command will feel that bad about this, even if true, is another question.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-06-06 12:33:54|| 2003-06-06 12:33:54|| Front Page Top

#2 According to Burmese exile groups - whose accounts have now been supported by United States diplomats in Rangoon - the NLD convoy was attacked by thousands of USDA members, plain-clothes members of the security forces and freed convicts armed with sticks, machetes and some firearms who had been transported into the area with the assistance of local military commanders.
The exile groups claim that many people were killed and that both Ms Suu Kyi and deputy NLD chairman Tin Oo were injured. While the accounts of the toll and the extent of the leaders' reported injuries remain conflicting, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says "disturbing and credible reports" indicate the death toll was much higher than the four acknowledged by officials. Some exile sources said Ms Suu Kyi suffered head injuries and a broken arm when she was beaten by the mob and that TinOo, a 76-year-old former army chief of staff, suffered minor gunshot wounds. Unidentified sources told the BBC and Agence France Presse that Ms Suu Kyi had been "hurt by shards of glass on her face and shoulder" when a brick smashed her car windscreen. The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, a self-styled shadow government based in the United States, said about 70 people were killed. The Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma, which had earlier broadcast extracts of Ms Suu Kyi's speech in Monywa, reported that she had suffered a serious head injury and that "scores of people" had died in the attack.

I think that the government goons were supposed to beat up her supporters and maybe arrest her. Things got out of control and she was seriously injured or killed and now the government is now frantically trying to figure out what to do.

Posted by Steve 2003-06-06 13:33:26|| 2003-06-06 13:33:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Who bad an imperialist hegemon would the US be if we went in and cleaned out the Junta. The left should love us for that, no? Yeah right.

Posted by Yank 2003-06-06 19:42:31|| 2003-06-06 19:42:31|| Front Page Top

#4 USDA?
Didn't'know the United States Department of Agriculture hired thugs.

Posted by Raptor 2003-06-07 08:54:12|| 2003-06-07 08:54:12|| Front Page Top

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