21.   The group speculated that the junta staged the attack to forge better relations with China while creating distrust between Beijing and the Burmese opposition.

22.   Two years later, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won the prize, angering the military dictators holding her in house arrest at the time.

23.   He claimed that Burmese opposition had some support within the military.

24.   He noted that South African President Nelson Mandela and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi had also been similarly branded by their critics.

25.   However Danish diplomats said the real reason for his arrest was his friendship with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

26.   In Thailand, the delegation will meet Thai authorities, local representatives of UN organisations in Burma and the Burmese opposition in exile.

27.   A Burmese opposition group had said a Total field office had been attacked in Burma last month by unidentified armed men thought to oppose a Total gas pipeline project.

28.   A Burmese opposition group Saturday alleged that aid contributed by Aung San Suu Kyi to political prisoners had been seized by their jailers.

29.   A coalition of Burmese opposition groups at the Thai frontier reported that border patrol police and SLORC troops clashed on Thai soil Thursday.

30.   According to a UN official, Vendrell will try and set the stage for talks between military authorities and Burmese opposition leaders.