Suu Kyi’s party attempting to incite outrage of victims: Junta

“NLD is trying to exploit the situation politically, instead of cooperating with the people,” it said.

“NLD is attempting to incite the outrage of the victims and problems, and to make the public outrage go into riots. I would say that evidence showed the selfishness and coarse manners of NLD.”

The junta’s criticism of its opponents comes after it extended Aung San Su Kyi’s house arrest by one year on Tuesday — though that news was not reported in state media.

The paper said NLD staff had given money to cyclone survivours at a temporary relief camp, but had got into a fight with local officials before their distribution was complete, angering storm survivours.

“Some of the victims who had not got a one-thousand kyat note left the camp to show their dissatisfaction,” it said.

“Indeed, it is NLD that incited the outrage of the victims under the pretext of donation,” it said, urging donors to be “vigilant against the real purposes of so-called donors trying to attain political gains.” Aung San Suu Kyi led the NLD to an election landslide in 1990, but the junta never allowed the party to take office, and instead kept the Nobel Peace Prize winner locked away under house arrest.

Aung San Suu Ky has spent 12 of the last 18 years in detention, and the extension of her house arrest provoked an international outcry.