Was Suu Kyi cloned by Than Shwe?

By our special investigations team

A four year investigation by Burma Tha Din Network has uncovered evidence that the Tatmadaw has a secret cloning program which may have been used against democracy activists.

In 2012 Burma Tha Din began investigating the strange behaviour of leading democracy activists which seemed out of character from previous actions and statements on human rights and democracy.

In 2011, just months after completely rejecting the 2008 Constitution, and pledging to work outside of it to achieve democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi suddenly agreed to take part in by elections due in 2012.

In 2012 88 generation leaders stopped making any effort to free political prisoners still in jail, took donations from business cronies, and some leaders such as Ko Ko Gyi launched racist attacks against the Rohingya and Muslims.

In 2012 several NLD leaders made statements stating that Rohingya did not deserve equal human rights and even proposed they be put in camps before deportation.

It was impossible to believe that people who had dedicated their lives to Burma’s democracy movement and supporting human rights could suddenly change their behaviour so dramatically.

Speaking off the record, friends and family of leading activists told us how they had changed after being released from detention. They believed that this was due to torture and incarceration. We were repeatedly told by friends and family of some released activists that they were like a different person after being released.

Our investigations led us to a project being run from secret tunnels built with the assistance of North Korea near the capital, NayPyiDaw. We managed to obtain details of Russian scientists working in the tunnels, and investigators checked their qualifications with university records in Russia. Rather than being nuclear scientists, many were geneticists, biologists or experts in robotics.

It appears that Burma’s suspected nuclear programme was in fact cover for an ambitious and groundbreaking programme to clone democracy activists in order to neutralise the threat they posed. It is not clear if activists who have been cloned are still held in detention, of if they have been killed.

A Burma Tha Din military source told us that although they were not aware of any cloning programme, Than Shwe receives all documents from the President and State Counsellors offices and issues instructions on them.

An Aung San Suu Kyi clone under the control of Than Shwe would explain many of her otherwise inexplicable recent actions, including appointing more ministers and officials linked with the military and former regime than members of the NLD, her attitude towards Muslims and Rohingya, silence on military attacks including rape of ethnic women, continuing Thein Seins peace process, her failure to release political prisoners, the crackdown on free media, and authoritarian leadership style.

We attempted to get a response to our investigation from NLD spokesperson Win Htien but when he realised we were from the media he told us to fuck off before we could even ask a question.

If the cloning program has happened, it raises the prospect that somewhere in a cell in a tunnel near NayPyiDaw the real Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is sitting in a cell listening to the radio and thinking; “How the hell can people believe I’d do that?!”