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Dear OKKAR66129 (r)
In a message dated 98-07-09 11:32:56 EDT, dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< Thirdly, this Reuters report on June 29, which suggests the commentaries
ran in Burma on June 28. Can you send out those commentaries?
YANGON, June 29 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta threatened on Monday
to take legal action against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her
political party, saying she was on a collision course with the government.
The warnings were carried in commentaries run by three state-owned
newspapers which said: ``The Myanmar government and its people can no
longer tolerate the acts of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who ignores the interest
of the nation and people.''
Similar warnings appeared in the media in the days prior to Suu Kyi's
house
arrest in 1989 for nearly six years by the then ruling military
government.
The Nobel Peace prize winner was released from detention in mid-1995.
The country's media are considered mouthpieces of the ruling State Peace
and Development Council (SPDC).
Finally, there is the reference to Vietnam's Diem, who was murdered in a
bloody coup. The NLM piece referred to probably ran June 28 or 29.
"In an article printed in the state-controlled New Light of Myanmar
newspaper, the regime warned that Aung San Suu Kyi could become another
Ngo Dinh Diem, a former President of South Vietnam was assassinated at
the direction of generals in the South Vietnamese army during a coup in
1963."
Your assistance in providing these important articles from the New Light
of Myanmar would be appreciated. >>
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Don?t do anything unforgivable
(by - U Pyay Kyaw)
(The New Light of Myanmar, Monday, 19 June, 1998)
Myanmar people, who were tortured, exploited and suppressed under the colonial
rule, anticipated independence. They also calculate that when independence was
regained, the development of the State would be achieved with the use of the
natural riches of their soil and their efforts, and as a result they could
enjoy the savour of independence. Practically, national consolidation or unity
of national races became disintegrated because of dissension, internal and
external political instigation, sectarianism, separatism, personality cult and
strong attachment to the particular principle, which came along with
independence as a evil legacy of colonialists. Since independence was regained
in 1948, the people suffered the terrible consequences of internal insurgency.
Difference of opinion and principle and separatism were common aboveground and
underground. The lives of people were deprived of peace and tranquillity. If
one group gained power, other groups opposed, attacked and boycotted it. They
staged demonstrations with a view to creating commotion. The people had to
travel from one village to another, from one town to another, reciting
prayers. They could not enjoy the savour of independence.
The four-eight incident in which anarchy reigned supreme, set the worst
record among the disturbances. Decapitation events occurred among delicate and
benign Myanmar Buddhists. The wishes of Myanrnar people to live in peace and
to be prosperous vanished into thin air. On 18 September 1988, the Tatmadaw
had to save and safeguard the State and the people against the military threat
posed by the external colonialist group.
The Tatmadaw constituted the State Law and Order Restoration Council, and
has striven to ensure the rule of law and order, community peace and
tranquillity, secure and smooth transportation and swift and smooth flow of
commodity, to enable the people to earn their living without worry and to lay
down the framework of discipline-democracy. In this regard, success has been
achieved.
Permission was given to set up parties. Though the word ?democracy? was
recited in harmony, a democratic alliance could not be formed. Altogether 235
differ ENT parties were formed. This was due to sectarianism, separatism, and
strong attachment to the particular principle. Later, the number of party,
after bearing the consequences of their actions, deceased one after another.
The National League for Democracy set up by U Aung Gyi, U Tin Oo and Daw Suu
Kyi with 13 members each split shortly after its formation. The way of the
split of the NLD was not the one of splitting into equal halves but into
nearly one-third and fairly over two-thirds. When the split between U Aung Gyi
and Daw Suu Kyi occurred, U Tin Oo and his followers sympathised with the
group of Daw Suu Kyi. U Kyi Maung from the group of U Aung Gyi allied himself
to Daw Suu Kyi, and so Daw Suu Kyi won two-thirds of the party members plus U
Kyi Maung.
The split of the NLD did not stop in that stage. There emerged a communist
group, a patriotic Yebaw group, a group of those who played an active part in
the four-eight incident and a group of those who were fired from the party,
departments and the Tatmadaw. Sometimes, things changed from contradiction to
conflict. The top members of the party had to play an intermediary role in
settling disputes. Actions were taken against the top members of the NLD, who
could be cad communists of all kinds, because of the violation of law.
In the middle of July l9, Daw Suu Kyi issued an ultimatum to expel from the
party patriotic Yebaws who registered to lay wreath at the Azarny Day Ceremony
sponsored by the Government. Beginning 20 July 1989 when the restriction order
was imposed on Daw Suu Kyi, patriotic Yebaws grasped the leadership role of
the NLD after issuing a declaration. Patriotic Yebaws could easily do so
because many communists were in jail.
The youth felt dissatisfied with the nomination of patriotic Yebaws and old
stable PhaSaPaLa members for candidates to enter the election after the
Central rejected those nominated by the townships. In a central committee
meeting at the Headquarters, when a NLD leader said everybody nominated by the
townships could not be accepted, and only qualified persons were selected,
things went to such an extent that a representative from the district Struck
him with a broom. There were those who defected from the NLD and joined
another party declaring that they did not want any longer to be party members
so long as ex-military personnel took a leading role in the NLD.
The restriction order imposed on Daw Suu Kyi was lifted on 11-7-95, and the
youth holding extreme views criticised patriotic Yebaws and U Aung Shwe. Daw
Suu Kyi played an intermediary role in this case by saying that U Aung Shwe
was the one who controlled the party when she was under restriction.
The youth from the NLD, since the four eight incident, have gone to extremes
as a result of the guidance of leftist and rightist mentors. Since that time,
they shouted that if an interim government was not formed, they would put up a
fight and if MaSaLa Government did not step down, they would deal a blow to
them. After the disturbances, going underground was regarded as continuation
of the fight for the democracy. In this way, there emerged expatriates. Their
lives were ruined. Those who remained aboveground played an active part in
trying to create commotion, and violated the law. Some were arrested and some
fled to border areas and went underground for fear that they would be
arrested.
Those who wanted to take a their revenge on socialist Programme Party
Government and NaWaTa Government on 1; the grounds that they were sacked,
joined leftists and a rightists.
They used Daw Suu Kyi who came to Yangon for the health of her mother, as a d
shield by electing her as an democracy leader. They set Daw Suu Kyi on the
road to a head-on confrontation and defiance. Up to this time, Daw Suu Kyi
decided to return to England for the sake of education of-her two sons.
They initiated the NLD and Daw Suu Kyi into practising defiance by
insinuating the motto ?defiance of all authority?. Writer Maung Thaw Ka who
got fired because of making mistakes and Hanthawady U Win Tin set Daw Suu Kyi
on the road to defiance. The mono ?defiance of all authority? was inserted in
the publications and then issued.
Daw Suu Kyi initiated by the leftists group into practising defiance failed
to apply ] for the exemption of publishing political party publications in
1989. - She, opposing the Arzarny Day programme made by the Government every
year to lay a wreath and salute her father Bogyoke Aung San and saying that a
separate Arzarny Day ceremony would be held with her party members, stirred up
agitation.
Suggestions within the party that Daw Suu Kyi should not use confrontation
method were turned down. When the so-called technocrats, and leftists and
communists surrounding Daw Suu Kyi moved, away from her, the West group
presented all kinds of prizes and titles and used her naming her democracy
leader. Neo-colonialists in the West relied on Daw Suu Kyi to manipulate and
dominate Myanmar. They had done whatever was needed. They concentrated on
securing power for Daw Suu Kyi instead of seizing power for members of the NLD
and working for the latter?s welfare. They instigated riots, disorder,
confrontations and defiance to authority. Since she had already been
influenced by leftists and overwhelmed by ideas of confrontation and defiance
of authority believing that such acts constituted to be those of democracy
heroes, Daw Suu Kyi could not be stopped by anyone when the West bloc and the
West media assigned her the confrontation duty. Her attitude, words, deeds and
thought all got rough. It seemed those were regarded to be the qualities of a
Nobel laureate.
Daw Suu Kyi carried out activities again when the restriction order was
lifted on 11-7-95. Daw Suu Kyi told the NLD leadership and representatives on
17-7-97 that she bore no grudge against anyone. She added that being a
daughter of a soldier herself she regarded the Tatmadaw as her younger and
elder brothers. Political observers remarked then that she had softened her
stance.
However, she got tough when those from the other end gave the signal. She
threatened the (Na Wa Ta) State Law and Order Restoration Council government
by saying that ?Dialogue or utter devastation?. Madeleine Albright (now US
Secretary of State) arrived Yangon in 1995 and met Daw Suu Kyi. Then, Daw Suu
Kyi ordered 86 NLD member delegates, who had been attending the National
Convention for about three years, to boycott it There were proposals not to
boycott the National Convention and to exercise prudence. But she turned them
down outright and expelled some from the party.
The West bloc spurred her on by giving her more prizes, prize money and
titles. They issued instructions of all sorts through various means on what
Daw-Suu Kyi had to do. They made NLD to shout slogans and carry out activities
every year that NLD was to draft the constitution and convene the Hluttaw. The
government then met Central Executive Committee members, (who had been legally
in existence as NLD CEC members according to the Elections Commission). When
it mate further arrangements for another meeting U Aung Shwe first pledged to
meet but changed his mind with the excuse that Daw Suu Kyi was not included in
the meeting.
In 1989, the NLDs broke laws by attempting to form a parallel government,
going underground, making contacts with those underground and stirring riots.
It would not be necessary to find out a person whether he was a politician or
a rogue or a thief if he broke law. Action had to be taken against him. Even
in the West, the angle of justice, their symbol of justice, is blind-folded.
The figure holds the scales of justice implying that cases will be settled
justly and fairly.
Chairman of NLD signed the document expelling NLD members as punishment for
breach of law Irrespective of the age of seniority. He then presented the
matter to the Elections Commission. U Aung Shwe had already signed and
expelled Daw Suu Kyi, U Kyi Maung and U Tin Oo. The West bloc had reinstated
them in their previous positions. They had not been re-appointed according to
Myanmar discipline and law.
Relying on the West Daw Suu Kyi has been calling for economic sanctions on
Myanmar and ostracizing her and at the same time she has asked foreign
investors not to invest in Myanmar to serve her self-interest and to keep the
people of Myanmar in poverty. Now again, prompted by the West she has been
demanding the government to convene a Hluttaw within two months. She told the
foreign media that she had plans if the Hluttaw was not convened. She
distributed a letter dated 23 June 1998 demanding the government to convene a
Hluttaw to foreign correspondents. Foreign broadcasting stations announced
this without delay. ] They did so without knowing whether the letter had
leached the government as addressed.
The VOA in its 6 o'clock evening programme on 20 June broadcast an interview
with ex-Brig-Gen U Aung Gyi who was in the United States. In response to a
question on the NLD demands for handing over power after calling a Hluttaw, he
replied that generally a term of parliament lasts only four years, that there
is no parliament that lasts ten years. He said the Tatmadaw government had
convened the National Convention which was the highest sort of political
forum.
Daw Suu Kyi ignored the interests of the nation and the people. Instead, she
got so conceited that she acted like a dictator within the party and made
trouble with her reliance on the West and at the expense of improving
stability, peace and development in the country. She is following the dictates
from outside which indicated the instances of certain nations and then issued
orders.
Foreigners would praise if the mission is accomplished or else they would
ignore and remain quiet. The case of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam
is a good lesson. The West bloc used him but he did not win public support.
When he failed to serve the purpose they made the military seize power and
remove him from office. He lost his life.
Myanmar today is a sovereign independent nation with legislative, executive
and judicial powers. The State Peace and Development Council is a legitimate
government and it has the right to exercise sovereign powers in public
interest. With goodwill, it is building a stable, peaceful, modern and
developed nation today. It is trying to develop the national economy by
practising market economy.
At the same time, it is convening the National Convention for the emergence
of an enduring State Constitution. While preventing the country from falling
into the hands of neo-colonialists and their stooges, who are axe-handles, it
is effectively and successfully undertaking nation-building tasks.
A law has already been promulgated to ensure success of the National
Convention and Systematic transfer of power. It is the law No 5/96 of the
government promulgated on 7-6-96 entitled the Law Protecting the Peaceful and
Systematic Transfer of State Responsibility and the Successful Performance of
the Functions of the National Convention against Disturbances and Oppositions.
According to section 3, Chapter II of the above law, individuals or
organizations are prohibited from disturbing, destroying, obstructing,
inciting, delivering speeches, making oral or written statements and
disseminating in order to undermine, belittle and make people misunderstand
the functions being carried out by the National Convention for the emergence
of a firm and enduring Constitution and according to the section 4 of the law,
violators, on conviction, will be punished with imprisonment for a term of
minimum of 5 years to a maximum of 20 years and may also be liable to fine.
Section 5 of the law prescribes that if any organization or any person on the
arrangement or abetment of any organization violates any prohibition contained
in section 3, such organization may be
(a) suspended for a period to be specified,
(b) abolished; or
(c) declared as an unlawful association under the Unlawful Associations Law.
Section 6 of the law prescribes that all funds and property of an
organization against which action is taken under section 5 may also be
confiscated. The government has already announced that the constitution is not
to be drafted by a single organization or a single person and that Hluttaw
shall not be called unilaterally in the absence of a new Constitution.
In fact, Daw Suu Kyi is just a guest of Myanmar. Being a wife of a British,
she has no right to stand for election even under the Elections Law enacted by
Bogyoke Aung Saw, her father. After winning Nobel Prize and others including
dollars and pounds, her family has become a millionaire. The family has
acquired a three-storey building and a new limousine. Do not cause destruction
to Myanmar to get more prizes and cash awards from the West. Do not disturb
stability and peace in the country. Myanma law and Myanma public opinion can
no longer tolerate traitorous acts.
(Translation: OM)