And 27 days later on 20th April Lt-General Khin Nyunt,the chief of military intelligence and a senior member of the ruling military council, said Nato's action violated principles of the U.N.Charter and international law. But Khin Nyunt has neither mentioned the plight of the refugees nor the problems they have posed for other countries. The junta is unable to understand the fact that it is this threat of humanitarian disasters that finally brought about Nato's political and military intervention. In spite of its association with the Asean, the Burmese junta still seems to have a strong inclination to do certain things in a certain way from force of habit.
Old habits die hard.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is the only Muslim leader who come out strongly in support of Serb dictator Milosevic and his anti-Muslim operations. The rest of the Muslim world condemned the Yugoslav government for its ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Having considered Nato's action as another example of the West's attempts to impose its will by force many Muslim countries have initially been reluctant to support the outside military intervention in Kosovo. But the TV pictures of fleeing refugees and the suffering of fellow Muslim have changed public opinion in the Islamic world. Malaysia, supporting the Nato action, is reported to have been considering offering shelter to the displaced Kosovan.