BANGKOK, Thailand -- The American who swam across a lake in 2009 and illegally spent two nights with Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, resulting in an extension of her house arrest, said now that she is free, she will be "assassinated" as a pawn to topple the junta.
"I'm not talking about the [Burmese] junta killing her," said John Yettaw, a Mormon from Missouri, in an interview conducted via Skype.
Instead, an "expendable" Mrs. Suu Kyi will now be assassinated by anti-junta "Burmese," to spark the regime's collapse, Mr. Yettaw warned.
Mr. Yettaw's dream in September 2009 compelled him to swim across Inya Lake in Rangoon to reach Mrs. Suu Kyi's two-story villa, to show her that killers could use that relatively unguarded route, enter her lakeside home, and easily murder her.
Mr. Yettaw was arrested after he swam back across Inya Lake from Mrs. Suu Kyi's home in May 2009, put on trial, jailed for three months, and finally expelled from Burma.