The Truth About Htun Aung Kyaw

[thanwin33@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear burmanet readers (including Tin Win Thein and Nyi Nyi),
     I would like to tell you more about Htun Aung Kyaw.   I would like 
to explain how Htun Aung Kyaw became the ABSDF leader.  In 1988, Htun 
Aung Kyaw and his friends went to Three Pagoda Pass on the Thai-Burma 
border.  At this time, I was a GDI student. I arrived at Three Pagoda 
Pass prior to Htun Aung Kyaw.  At the time, the Mon students and Rangoon 
students lived together on the Thai side of Three Pagoda Pass.  Tin Soe 
Noung, Dr. Naing Aung, Zaw Oo, and other students were organizing a 
student organization. Many students had come to Three Pagoda Pass, and 
it was very difficult to organize everyone because the students came 
from different parts of Burma and everyone was scared to trust each 
other.  
     I tried to unify the Rangoon students, the ethnic students, and 
students from other areas.  We almost achieved this goal, but then Htun 
Aung Kyaw and his friends came.  He said that since Three Pagoda Pass 
belonged to the Mon, the Rangoon students and students from other areas 
have to fight with the Mon.  He created conflict and misunderstanding 
between the Rangoon students, students from other areas and the Mon 
students.  He did this because he wanted to divide and conquer us.  He 
wanted power and support from the students so he could be a leader.  In 
this way, he destroyed the unity that we had worked so hard to achieve.
     Another related situation occurred when we were organizing for  the 
first ABSDF conference which was sponsored by the KNU, Mon, and KIA.  
Each area, KNU, Mon, and KIA, had to select student representatives for 
the first ABSDF conference.  The number of student representatives was 
based on the population of the students living in that territory.  I 
lived in the Mon territory at the Three Pagoda Pass.  We were allowed to 
have five representatives from the Mon territory.  At that time, we had 
only one camp in our area. The committee of the camp decided who we 
should send to the first ABSDF conference.  At the meetings, the camp 
chose five students to represent us.  
      Htun Aung Kyaw missed all the camp meetings.  He was not chosen as 
a representative, either.  But he wanted to go to the first ABSDF 
conference because at the conference, students would be voting for 
central executive committee members of the ABSDF.  At this point, he 
manipulated his way into becoming a representative.  He started coming 
to the camp meetings.  He told everyone that we should increase the 
number of representatives from 5 to 7 because he wanted to go to the 
conference.  This was not possible since the student representatives 
were going to be sponsored by the New Mon State Party.  The New Mon 
State Party could only provide food and travel expenses for only five 
representatives since they did have much money.  They did not have 
enough money to pay for seven people.  
      Since his strategy of increasing the representatives did not work, 
he started creating conflict among the Rangoon students, students from 
other areas and the Mon students.  He told the Rangoon students and 
students from other areas that Mon students were unfair and were trying 
to control all the students in the camp.  Then he told the Rangoon 
students and students from other areas that we must separate the camp.  
He wanted us to start a new camp.  He would be the representative of 
this new camp at the ABSDF conference.  
    In this way, Htun Aung Kyaw created disunity among the students for 
his personal ambition.  He wanted the students to start another camp so 
that he could attend the ABSDF conference.  He manipulated his way into 
becoming the ABSDF chairman.  The camp did not even start until after 
the conference was finished.  The camp was located near Sankhalaburi.  
But I did go to this fake camp.  I stayed in the original student camp.  
(To be continued)

Than Win (Htoo Gyi)

     

       

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