Burma’s Consul-General in Hong Kong, Ye Myint Aung, who added heat to the Royingya debate by calling Burma’s Muslim minority “ugly as ogres,” has now waded into the controversy over the Aung San Suu Kyi trial—suggesting that the American who swam to her lakeside home could have been her “boyfriend.”

The loose-lipped diplomat raised the possibility in a letter he posted on the consulate’s Web site, according to a report on Friday in the South China Morning Post.

Burma’s Consul-General in Hong Kong, Ye Myint Aung.(Source: South China Morning Post)

The words "secret agent or her boyfriend" are underlined and in bold, in case anyone misses the point. The letter is signed by the “Consulate General of the Union of Myanmar.”

Charges that Burma's democracy leader Suu Kyi breached the terms of her house arrest were lodged against the pro-democracy icon after American John W Yettaw swam across a lake to her house this month.

Suu Kyi's lawyer, Kyi Win, has described Yettaw as a "fool" for giving the junta an excuse to extend the detention of Suu Kyi, who had been due for release this month.

There are also evidently a few fools at work in Burma's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.