kind of men

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dawn star who is correct, you or daw suu. please explain to me i do not 
understand. if you have abandoned daw aung san suu kyi please say so. cannot 
have both ways. thank you.

NLD/daw suu statement: ''Such acts are contrary to the principles of the 
party,'' the NLD said in a press release Saturday. ''The committee 
representing the people's parliament was greatly disturbed to learn of the 
seizure of the Burmese (Myanmar) Embassy in Bangkok and taking of hostages 
by armed men. While the (committee) understands the aspirations and 
frustrations of students and other democracy activists who have been forced 
to leave Burma (Myanmar) by the repressive measures of the military regime, 
we categorically condemn seizure of the embassy and the taking of 
hostages,'' the release said.

>From: Dawn Star <dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx
>CC: burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: These are the kind of men of which heroes are made. And we salute 
>you all.
>Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 15:09:52 +0100
>
>"Exiled Myanmar dissidents Saturday deplored the violent tactics of
>radical student gunmen..." And so it was said by many, but not by all.
>
>Now that the helicopter has left, and the Thai minister has been
>released, and hostages are free and safe, it is truly amazing and
>unfortunate that one opposition group after another is heaping praise on
>the Thai government, on Thai officials, on the Thai negotiating process,
>and not a word of praise or recognition for the brave freedom fighters
>who once again showed the Burmese junta that they are at fault. These
>brave fighters threatened innocent hostages, and held off hundreds of
>elite paramilitary soliders, and risked their lives not so others would
>flow like rivers into a vacuum to cover up the essence of their deed,
>but to appeal to the civilized world to free political prisoners, to
>dialogue with the NLD and with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for national
>reconciliation. Lke great and free nations, they used force as a means
>of deterrence, arms to prevent warefare. Theirs was a great mission of
>peace, not war. They did not blow up the embassy, they did not
>unnecessarily take lives or use violence gratuitously. They artfully
>negotiated their way out of a most dangerous and tense combat situation,
>and they did it with in such a way that the entire civilised world of
>hundreds of millions of people, kept spellbound in suspense and hope,
>could see that they meant no real harm to the hostages unless the Thai
>negotiators forced a violent end to the conflict.
>
>Full responsibility rather than mere praise rests on the Thai government
>to respect their committment to the displaced Burmese population that
>now fears a "whiplash" or hostility and rebuke, which is absolutely
>unjutified by the heroic and brave act of
>defiance in the name of freedom and respect for human rights, and the
>call for a democratic form of government in Burma.
>
>And they breathed new life into the thousands of political prisoners
>suffering in hardship behind the dreaded prison walls of Burma.
>
>EuroBurma, and Dawn Star particularly, strongly affirms the noble and
>just cause of these freedom fighters, and though their methods may seem
>unthinkable to a hypocritical, near-sighted and so-called civilised
>world that encourages the junta and gives it international forums of
>support and endorsement, no one truly dare utter with honestly that
>these brave men were unjustified in their deed. No one but complacement
>and
>smug diplomats and their kind so unlike these fighters and men of peace.
>
>These selfless men, and not those who make great sounding public
>statements of reserved astonishment, will go down in the history of the
>freedom struggle in Burma as heroes
>of the oppressed, victims of investment policies, unrestrained global
>capitalism by corporations and their greedy shareholders, sychophant
>civil servants and other diplomats of useless rhethoic that serves not
>that cause of freedom, but rather the
>forces of reaction that constrain it as the struggle now breaches the
>21st century.
>
>
>These were brave and fearless men. Let it be said by he who dares to
>tell the truth that these are the kind of men of which heros are made.
>These are the men who one day will defend a free and democratic Burma.
>
>We salute you all.
>
>Dawn Star
>EuroBurmanet
> >

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