Burmese Diplomat Suggests Yettaw Could be Suu Kyi’s 'Boyfriend'

NOTE: THIS NEWS SHOULD NOT BE POSTED, BUT IT COULD BE USEFUL IN THE SHORT FUTURE

By YENI
The Irrawaddy News

Burma’s Consul-General in Hong Kong, Ye Myint Aung, who added heat to the Royingya debate by calling Burma’s Muslim minority “ugly as ogres,” has now waded into the controversy over the Aung San Suu Kyi trial—suggesting that the American who swam to her lakeside home could have been her “boyfriend.”

The loose-lipped diplomat raised the possibility in a letter he posted on the consulate’s Web site, according to a report on Friday in the South China Morning Post.


(Soft CLEAR velvet skinned) Burma’s Consul-General in Hong Kong, Ye Myint Aung. (Source: South China Morning Post)

The newspaper carried the text of the letter, which reads: “Dear Friends. Frankly, we have no idea whether he [Yettaw] is either secret agent or her boyfriend at this moment. We shall try to learn it and tell you later.”

The words "secret agent or her boyfriend" are underlined and in bold, in case anyone misses the point. The letter is signed by the “Consulate General of the Union of Myanmar.”

Charges that Burma's democracy leader Suu Kyi breached the terms of her house arrest were lodged against the pro-democracy icon after American John W Yettaw swam across a lake to her house this month.

Suu Kyi's lawyer, Kyi Win, has described Yettaw as a "fool" for giving the junta an excuse to extend the detention of Suu Kyi, who had been due for release this month.

There are also evidently a few fools at work in Burma's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.