Regime Says Plot Won’t Disrupt Talks on Reforms
Myanmar’s ruling junta said that reconciliation talks with pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would not be derailed by the discovery of a coup plot led by the cronies of an elderly former dictator.
The government says the conspiracy was masterminded by a son-in-law and three grandsons of Ne Win, a military strongman who ruled Myanmar, formerly Burma, for 26 years until his retirement in 1988.
The military has been holding reconciliation talks since October 2000 with Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won elections in 1990 but was not allowed to take power.
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