Myanmar attacks critics, calls Suu Kyi a stooge By Aung Hla Tun

"All these protesters, presidential candidates, heads ofstate, the secretary-general of the U.N., blithely jumped on the trumpet-blowing bandwagon of calumniating (sic) Myanmar, not because they see, they hear, they know for themselves the Myanmar affairs, but for their own selfish purposes and aims," it said.

"But the truth will come out in due course, truth willtriumph ultimately."

Myanmar’s military forcibly brought Suu Kyi back to Yangonin the early hours of Saturday, ending a nine-day roadside protest which began when authorities stopped her in her car just outside the capital and refused to let her travel to the provinces.

She has been confined to her residence ever since, out oftelephone contact and with diplomatic access barred.

The New Light of Myanmar, which like other Myanmarnewspapers is seen as an official mouthpiece of the government, suggested Suu Kyi was in danger from unidentified plotters.

"Myanmar leaders, wise in the ways of evil-minded people,clearly foresee perils under which Suu Kyi is flitting about unwarily," said the newspaper commentary.

"Myanmar leaders have learned many lessons from eventstaking place around the world that perpetrators of political massacres have an atrocious habit of silencing and destroying the instruments they have employed in accomplishing their sinister assignments," it said.

"The Myanmar leaders cannot and will not allow such acatastrophe happening on Myanmar soil, hence the solid, wisdom-led reason to keep Suu Kyi always under their vigilant eyes, for her own safety as well as for safeguarding Myanmar’s fame against the calumniating fusillades (sic) of neo-colonialists."

CONDEMNATION AT MILLENNIUM SUMMIT

The Myanmar government has denied that Suu Kyi and hersenior colleagues are under house arrest, saying they have been asked to stay at home while it investigates reports that some members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) had been involved in "terrorist activity".

Suu Kyi’s protest, and the government’s subsequentcrackdown, came at an embarrassing time for Myanmar, with world leaders meeting in New York for the U.N. summit.

U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister TonyBlair used their summit speeches to denounce Myanmar.

"We face another test today in Burma, where a brave andpopular leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, once again has been confined with her supporters in prison and her country in distress, in defiance of repeated U.N. resolutions," Clinton said.

In his five minute address at the summit, Blair said: "I donot wish to leave the United Nations again without saying this: the treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burmese regime is a disgrace. I call upon the Burmese government to let her go free, and I call on fellow world leaders to back that call."

Suu Kyi’s NLD won elections in 1990 by a landslide but hasnever been allowed to govern. (With additional reporting by Andrew Marshall in Bangkok)