I WONDER IF THIS IS A SIGN that Burma’s thugocracy is getting nervous?

One of Burma’s most powerful leaders blamed Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy for violence last week in which at least four people were killed, a sign that the military regime may not be willing to release the Nobel laureate from detention.

The comments by military intelligence chief Khin Nyunt are the first by a senior member of the junta on the May 30 violence.

“The recent course of confrontation taken by the NLD led to creating the untoward incidents, causing a great loss to the state,” Mr Nyunt was quoted as saying in a speech to officials at an airport opening ceremony on Friday.

“Corrupt practices and the organisational work of the NLD instigated by foreign nations will not benefit the country.”

That they’re admitting this is, I suspect, a sign that there’s a lot more of this going on than we’re hearing about. That they’re trying to blame it on Aung San Suu Kyi suggests that they’re feeling heat about her disappearance.