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SPDC: Trial of the MIS-evil



SPDC: Trial of the MIS-evil
by Criticus (25-9-99)

   The modern civilised world is supposed to be ruled by justice. But
for a country where justice is never achieved nor even sought because of
the persistent, perennial, ubiquitous fear instilled by Ne Win's
malevolent intelligence service (MIS) into the mind of people, trials of
the perpetrators of crimes against humanity by Nazi-hunters would likely
to set a good example for those who wish to bring the notorious generals
and the MIS personnel to justice.

   Almost all personnel who left MIS for various reasons are now leading
comfortable lives as businessmen, informers, journalists, diplomats and
so on. For instance, Tun Ngwe, SPDC's ambassador to Germany, and Foreign
Minister Win Aung were once hard-core members of MIS ready to do all
kinds of evil deeds. Political prisoners are routinely tortured by
people like Khin Nyunt, Kyaw Win, Kyaw Thein, Hla Min, Si Thu, etc.  In
fact, all MIS personnel are torturers.  How do we feel? We are, of
course, revolted by what they have done to pro-democracy civilians. But
our revulsion is immaterial. What matters is how to bring revulsion home
to those responsible, especially when they know that the world was
unrevolted by the same horror perpetrated by the same forces under the
BSPP regime between 1962 and 1988.

   In the absence of any kind of international judicial mechanism to
take action against these torturers, the MIS personnel, in various
disguises, are able to get away with their evil deeds and pretend as if
they are innocent of the crimes they committed in their country. There
is no way of knowing how many civilians Win Aung (foreign minister) and
Tun Ngwe (ambassador) had tortured or killed in the course of their duty
as MIS officers before they became so-called diplomats. The time has
come for overseas democratic movement, exile Burmese democratic
government and friendly countries to try to set up a special
international tribunal so that MIS personnel can be put on trial for
rounding up elected members of parliament, torturing political prisoners
and sending them to their deaths. 

   Recently the European Council of Humanity Action and Co-operation
(ECHAC) has named six Indonesian generals it says should be prosecuted
over "genocide" in East Timor. Also on the list are 13 militia leaders,
a colonel and a lieutenant. Since the Indonesian army is modelled on its
US counterpart, there is no way the East Timor operation could have been
carried out without these generals, ECHAC says.  According to ECHAC
although the army's commander-in-chief General Wiranto is not on the
list he had overall responsibility in East Timorese operation. The ECHAC
identified sites of war crimes in Kosovo before the arrival of NATO
forces.

   Nazi officials who murdered for Hitler have been, for over fifty
years, pursued by dedicated investigators and occasionally being brought
to trial.  These Nazis are in their 80s and 90s; but Nazi-hunters have
never made allowance for their ages. Whoever is caught will be tried and
executed. Only one senior figure, Heinrich Muller, head of Gestapo in
Berlin, is unaccounted for. If alive he would be over 100 year old. As a
matter of fact, the world was reawakened to the Nazi-crimes, only when
Israeli agents kidnapped Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), the chief architect
of the Holocaust, in 1960, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His conviction and
hanging in Israel in 1962 brought about an international sensation that
that reopened the movement to crack down Nazi-criminals.

   The MIS has created USDA (Union Solidarity and Development
Association) which is similar to anti-independence militia group in East
Timor used by the Indonesian army in fomenting unrest. Indonesian
government was reluctant to let the potentially oil-rich territory to go
its own way. Thus in breach of its solemn pledges, it let its armed
militias rampaged to create armed anarchy in East Timor. The sinister
figure of former General Prabowo Subianto (Suharto's son-in-law and
chief of intelligence) played an important part in bringing militia
movements into being.  Although Subianto fell from influence when
Suharto was toppled in 1998, his legacy lives on among Indonesian
officers who made East Timor a profitable playground. Like USDA leaders
in Burma, nearly all the known militia leaders are Timorese who, over
many years, have worked for Indonesian army and intelligence agency. 
Now acting as proxy for Indonesian military they are trying to destroy
the independence movement.

   Similarly, the violence of MIS and its USDA thugs began with the
attack on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, U Kyi Maung and U Tin Oo while they were
travelling in a three-car motorcade in Rangoon, on 9th November 1996.
>From then on the MIS and USDA have been publicly terrorising and even
murdering NLD members and pro-democracy civilians. The so-called
government security forces just stood by and let the MIS and SPDA did
whatever they like.  Burma has probably become Asia's most lawless
country ravaged by severe political, economic and social problems. So
long as the MIS is calling the shots in the country the SPDC can be
conveniently described as the government of the thieves, by the thieves
and for the thieves. And the thieves and the murderers must be put on
trail.

(Crititus, 25-9-99)