‘Monks’ attacked peace convoy of Burmese activist, inquiry told

ATTACKERS dressed as monks ambushed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s convoy and beat, stabbed and clubbed her supporters while screaming “die, die”, two dissidents said yesterday.

The testimony by Khin Zaw and Wunna Maung before a Thai Senate panel provided graphic details of the May 30 violence that supporters say was unleashed on the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s convoy ahead of her arrest and the Burmese military junta’s crackdown on her pro-democracy party.

Both said they were in the convoy and witnessed the night-time attack outside a village in northern Burma. Suu Kyi, the widow of an Oxford don, was travelling in the area as part of her 15-year non-violent campaign to restore democracy.