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Reinventing General Aung San



Dearest Farouk,

This is not the time to hold a mirror , this is NOT THE TIME to look back
into history and find meticulous faults in the past political leaders. It is
time for unity. If you don't want to be united with us , please stay aside.
As I say .. DO NOT disturb. NO ONE in this world is perfect.

We are using any strategy to break free of the leprous grip of SPDC.
We are still struggling very hard to attain democracy in a peacful mean and
this kind of misguided attempts to stall our nations progreess , paid or
unpaid to do so aside , is NOT WELCOME !

If you are an ordinary Burmese civilian who has lived the hellish 80's in
the country , you may understand the people's suffering. I am not a
historian , not a politician, not a philosopher , so I don't know whether
your quotation about this Burmese Professor of history is true or not.
BUT , as a medical doctor I know hundreds of unarmed civilians really died
on the streets of Burma , gunned down by Burmese soldiers. It included
children below 16 years.It included Buddhist monks.
You don't seem to have an empathetic soul anywhere in your cold ( money )
heart.

Everyone in this world have the potential for being corrupted by power , but
you won't see it in a fully democratic society becos of the restrictions
that don't allow it.

P.S. I don't have any trouble to explain about Burma and its people to my
Canadian friends.They have heard their weeping and they have seen the
troubles and grief. They are not deaf and blind ( by money ) like you.

With best regards,
alice khin saw win


Omar Farouk wrote:

> Alice wrote:
> >
> > Dear Farouk,
> >
> > There is a Burmese proverb ;
> > " If you do not want to help , don't help BUT do not disturb "
> -------------
>
> dear alice ,
>
> i am only holding up a mirror to what really happened. if you want to
> believe in  gods with clay feet, be my guest. sorry if i invaded your
> fantasy. Unfortunately Burma can no longer afford to glorify their
> leaders blindly. apparently the authoritarian streak in the national
> psyche seems to reflect the desire of people like you for Fuhrer-like
> leaders.
>
> there's no arguing that the journey on the road to democracy for the
> Burmese will be a long and arduous one. To quote one Burmese professor
> of history..."there may be a handful of people who view themselves as
> liberal democrats and cherish liberal values, but they are of little
> consequence in a society with passive, parochial political culture. As
> the Burmese saying goes, one sesame seed does not make oil."
>
> The nation-wide uprising in 1988 against the one-party socialist
> dictatorship was a rare exception for Burma. Millions of penniless and
> angry Burmese poured into the streets and toppled the iron-fisted rule
> of General Ne Win's regime. The ruling Burma Socialist Party Program a
> year earlier had cancelled all banknotes levelling the whole society.
>
> Although there are hopes for the future of liberal democracy in Burma,
> one cannot be optimistic but wary of the lingering authoritarian
> traditions of the people.
>
> As the Burmese historian noted: "Some observers might take issue with
> the labelling of the entire society as basically authoritarian, but it
> must be asserted that authoritarianism lies dormat with Burmese
> individuals when they are not in power situation...it is most noticeable
> once they are invested with power."
>
> Reports that Aung San Suu Kyi  ? and the military leaders ? are
> intolerant of criticism can be viewed as classic examples of Burmese
> authoritarianism.
>
> P.S. my apologies if you have troubling explaining burma to your
> canadian friends.