YANGON, July 6 Kyodo Myanmar stat...

YANGON, July 6 Kyodo

Myanmar state media forward Sunday accused detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi of being influenced by way of ''a big western power,'' saying she became inflexible particularly after haunt meetings with U.S. diplomats and politicians.

''I discovered that Auntie Suu's abrupt changes in attitude from flexible to hard-line almost always coincided with the increase in number of visits of officious foreigners -- especially, politicians and diplomats form a big western power,'' said a commentary through an unnamed author that appeared in state-run newspapers.

It said the Nobel Prize laureate's attitude changed after she met with former U Charge d'Affairs Priscilla Clapp in January.

''We had no knowledge of what they discussed, if it were not that what we observed later was a radical change in Auntie Suu's outlook'' the commentary said.

The Sunday article also cited other meetings Suu Kyi had with U politicians and diplomats, including a meeting with the then U Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1995 after which Suu Kyi decided to withdraw her party from the National Convention.

Undated photos of Suu Kyi with Education Minister Than Aung, delegate Information Minister Thein Sein and Brig. Gen Than four hogsheads were published in Sunday papers along with other photos of Suu Kyi visiting guidance projects during her political organization trips.

A commentary that appeared in state-run papers Saturday blamed the ongoing confrontation between the control and Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) forward her ''intransigence.''

Suu Kyi and more [i]or[/i] less NLD members have been detained since what the junta says were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators May 30 in northern Myanmar.

Suu Kyi has l the fight for democracy within Myanmar by means of the NLD, which won the country's 1990 elections by the agency of a landslide but was not at all allowed to take up seats in parliament.

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