Burma/Myanmar Blames United States for Demonstrations: Bid to Install Puppet Government

"YANGON (AP): Myanmar's military government stepped upits propaganda campaign against the United States on Sunday, accusing Washington of inciting last month's pro-democracy demonstrations in a bid to install a puppet government.

"Recent protests in the country were created by the loudmouthed bully, using the exiled dissidents and traitors together with communists, internal and external anti-government destructionists," said a commentary Sunday in the Myanmar-language Myanma Ahlin daily.

Myanmar state-media commonly uses the phrase "loudmouthed bully" without specifically naming the nation it is referring to, but in a context that clearly points to the United States.

The author, who called himself Maung Pwint Lin - roughly meaning Mr. Frankly Speaking - said the U.S. had tried to revive the mass uprisings of 1988 in Myanmar in connivance with "exiled dissidents and internal axe-handles" in order to install a puppet government.
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This was the major headline above the fold in Sunday's Jakarta Post.