Rangoon - A war of words between Burma and its international critics escalated yesterday with a stinging response from the military government to criticism from US President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the UN Millennium Summit in New York.
A commentary in the state-run, English-language New Light of Myanmar newspaper said pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, padlocked by the authorities inside her home since Saturday, was a neo-colonialist stooge being kept under supervision for her own safety.