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Myanmar step up propaganda war against US

AP | By, Yangon
Oct 29, 2007 09:52 AM IST

Myanmar's military Govt stepped up its propaganda campaign against the US, accusing Washington of inciting last month's pro-democracy demonstrations.

Myanmar's military government stepped up its propaganda campaign against the United States, accusing Washington of inciting last month's pro-democracy demonstrations in hopes of installing a puppet government.

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Demonstrations that began August 19 over high prices for fuel and consumer goods grew into a broad-based movement for democratic reform that attracted tens of thousands of people in Yangon, the country's biggest city.

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Troops crushed the protests by shooting at demonstrators on September 26-27 and arresting almost 3,000 protesters, including Buddhist monks. The government said 10 people were killed, but dissident groups put the toll at up to 200 and say thousands more people were arrested.

"Recent protests in the country were created by the loudmouthed bully, using the exiled dissidents and traitors together with communists, internal and external anti-government destructionists," said a commentary yesterday in the Myanmar-language Myanma Ahlin daily.

Myanmar state-media commonly uses the phrase "loudmouthed bully" without naming the nation it is referring to, but in a context that clearly points to the United States.

The author, who called himself Maung Pwint Lin -- roughly meaning Mr Frankly Speaking -- said the US had tried to revive the mass uprisings of 1988 in Myanmar in connivance with "exiled dissidents and internal axe-handles" in order to install a puppet government.

The commentary said the majority of people in Myanmar opposed the protests, but a gullible minority came out on the streets, instigated by foreign broadcasters such as the BBC and the US-government funded Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.

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