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ABSDF Statment on Rgn University di



Subject: ABSDF Statment on Rgn University diamond jubilee

 
ABSDFS  STATEMENT ON THE DIAMOND JUBILEE 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE RANGOON UNIVERSITY
 
	The 5th of December 1995 is the auspicious occasion of the
seventy-fifth diamond jubilee anniversary of the historic Rangoon
University in Burmese history. On the first of December, 1920, the British
government enacted the Rangoon University Act which could have prolonged
the British colonization in Burma. As a consequence, on 5th December of
the same year, the students from the Rangoon College launched a boycott
against the Act.  Since the students spearheaded the firt University
boycott against the British colony education, beginning of the strike is
originated from the students has been become the well-known maxim in
praise of the Burmese students.  
	The 1920 students strike could prompt the spirit of the
national-esteem and heighten the patriotism. It was also able to give
birth of national unity amongst the Burmese people and that unity paved
the way to the movement for the anti-colonization, national liberation and
independence of Burma.  
	The history of student activism, born together with the birth of
Rangoon University has been keeping still alive since from the colony era
to the current military dictatorship. For its fighting against the all
forms of oppression and its love for the truth and justice, the spirit of
student of Burma is still alive and active in Burmese politics until now.  
	Burma has been under the iron-rule of military dictatorship for
over three decades and the dignity of the country has been deteriorated in
the world. The character of the Burmese people has been aggravated because
of the economic calamity and the country has also become one of the Least
Development Countries designated by the United Nations. The worst thing is
the plague educational system which is the basis of the future development
of the country, has notably been destroyed.  The education under the
military oppression merely not more than could make the Burmese youth to
work under inferiority in other exotic countries.  The only democratic
education, in place of the education for military enslavement, will be
able to create the better future and atmosphere for the student youth.  
	The students has been peacefully struggling against the
suppressive governments through- out the history of student activism in
Burma. However, after the peaceful uprising of 8888 that marked the
significant chapter in the modern students movement in Burma, Students
Army was founded, as the armed wing of the democracy movement, to range
the armed struggle for the human rights and democracy in Burma.  As the
history of the Rangoon University is also the history of the student
activism, in other word, this auspicious diamond jubilee anniversary of
the Rangoon University is the diamond jubilee anniversary of the Burmese
student activism.  We, the ABSDF hereby strongly denounces the Slorcs
patronage to the celebration of this auspicious occasion of the Rangoon
University Diamond Jubilee for their political ploy. It is an another mock
political ploy by Slorc who has been ever suppressing the student activism
in cruel bloody way.  
	To build a new democratic era, the poverty and old-fashioned
systems has essentially to be exterminated. Thus, in order to overthrow
the entire military dictatorship mechanism, national unity with the
political openness is a must. We, the ABSDF would like to urge the whole
Burmese people to shoulder the inheritance of the spirit of the historic
student activism and to carry on the second struggle for the national
freedom and liberation of Burma. 
  
 
Central Committee
ABSDF (Dawn Gwin)
 
2nd December, 1995.