[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index ][Thread Index ]

Dear OKKAR66129 (r)



Thanks for sending this.  It would be really helpful if such commentaries,
particularly those which are noted or summarized by wire services, could
be posted regularly.  If that is not possible, then hopefully requests
similar to mine can also be accommodated in the future.

Larry Dohrs

On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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. >>
> -------------
> 
> 
>                            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)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>