NCGUB : Resistance Day Statment (in

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NATIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF BURMA



Statement on the 53rd Anniversary of Resistance Day



	The 27th of March, 1945, the day on which the Burma Patriotic Forces led
by Gen. Aung San, with the support of the Allies and together with the
entire people of Burma, commenced resistance against the Japanese
occupation forces practicing the evil fascist system, is historically the
Fascist Resistance Day.

(1) With the help and training given by the Japanese, Gen. Aung San, the
founder of the Burma Independence Army, and the Thirty Comrades had learned
the art of war. The struggle of the entire people of Burma, led by the
Burma Independence Army, for independence was successful because of the
assistance of the Japanese.

(2) However, when the Japanese imposed the fascist rule, which was worse
than the rule of colonialism, on the entire people of Burma, the Burma
Patriotic Forces led by Gen. Aung San acquired the assistance of the Allies
and, together with the people of Burma, launched resistance against the
fascist Japanese forces. The entire people of Burma had come to extremely
detest the fascist system. As a result, the entire people participated in
the resistance against the Japanese occupation forces, and fascism
disappeared from the land of Burma by the end of 1945. 

(3) Though the alien fascists could be expelled, the "domestic fascists"
clique of the army, changing their title from time to time, are ruling
Burma again with militarism, ever since Gen. Ne Win seized the state power
from the civilian government in 1962. 

(4) The SLORC/SPDC military clique has been misusing patriotism, practicing
the system of monopoly over the country's finance and economy, using the
so-called Union Solidarity and Development association in like manner as
Hitler had used his Brown Shirts. It has created special military
intelligence organizations, like Hitler's Gestapo secret police
organization,  to control the whole society, including the armed forces,
with fear. 
 
(5) The armed forces of today have to blatantly oppose the people in
accordance with the wishes of  the SPDC fascist militarist clique which has
to rule the country with coercion and oppression in order to perpetuate its
power. They have been relegated to the role of  being the SPDC's tool of
oppression, or  mercenary forces, and are being detested and feared by the
people. Sadly, we are seeing the armed forces that have become totally a
contradiction of the guide-line of their founder, Gen. Aung San, who said,
" The armed forces have been founded not for an individual but for the
whole country - for the entire nation. They have been founded not for an
organization, a party nor a group but for the whole country - for the
entire nation. Our armed forces are not for tyrannizing the people, not for
flaunting their power in reliance on weapon. The armed forces are the
servants of the country and not the other way round."

(6) The domestically made fascist military dictators of today have
shamelessly changed the name of the Anti-Fascist Resistance Day which has
its inception in the Burmese armed forces led by Gen. Aung San and the
historic victory of the people of various ethnic nationalities of Burma
over the fascist dictators,  to Armed Forces Day, disregarding the role of
the people. 

(7) So long as the evil fascist military dictatorship is in existence in
Burma, we will never be able to successfully establish a federal union
guaranteeing full democratic and human rights. Like in the past, for the
termination of the fascist military dictatorship,  it is time for patriotic
and self-respecting  members of the armed forces  to free themselves from
the role of being the tools of the SPDC and work together with the people
for freedom and the democratic cause.

(8) In conclusion, on this occasion of the 53rd Anniversary of Anti-Fascist
Resistance Day, we would like to earnestly urge the patriotic and honorable
members of the armed forces and the entire people to help bring about the
most appropriate means of achieving national reconciliation - the
tri-partite dialogue - comprising of the democratic forces led by Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi, genuine representatives of the ethnic nationalities and the
SPDC.  

March 27, 1998