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Subject: Re: [freeburma] The Burma Group Tuebingen suspends

Dear Heiko,
Do not be discouraged. Many ,if not all, activists stand behind you. I
was once a Government employee and a faithful party member of the Myanma
Socialist Lanzin Party. Any body who want to judge me can do so. I do not
think I should mind. Your action speak loulder than words.
Best Regards.

                         Saw Aung Khin.
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999 12:54:00 +0200 Heiko Schaefer <heiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
>Dear Friends,
>
>The Burma Group Tuebingen will suspend up to further notice and I
>personally will
>not take part in any active work for Freedom, Peace and Democracy in
>Burma.
>
>The Reasons: first, the government didn't pressed us to do like this. 
>If
>they would do, we would never change our mind. It was the Burmese
>opposition community with their permanent thinking that my wife is a
>MI-Officer. This is nonsense.
>
>Yes it is true, that my wife War War Min belongs to one of the 
>powerful
>families in Burma; she was grown up with the ideas of the SLORC/SPDC,
>but she never took actively part in SLORC/SPDC politics. Not in Burma
>and not outside of Burma. Even not in the USDA. She was a great help 
>for
>my work for Burma. Especially the power and the love she gave me. She 
>is
>also very valuable for me to get an insight of the SLORC/SPDC-ducation
>and politics. She was just not able to throw away over 30 years
>SLORC/SPDC-Education. Nobody can do this, but she had never a planning
>to co-operate with the military.
>
>Recently I wrote a letter in BurmaNet News - attached to this letter -
>there I expressed my feelings. Instead of getting a better situation 
>it
>worsened. Now, today I need to hear, that my visiting card contain a
>SPDC-word. On my visiting card is standing in Burmese "Myanmarpyitwin
>Lutlatchin, NYEINWUTCHIN hnint Dimokaresi atwet Naingngantaka ahpwet"
>(International Group for Freedom, Peace and Democracy in Burma). The
>Translation was done by me with help of a dictionary from the year 
>1957
>(U Tun Nyein, Students-Dictionary). I´m not a native speaker in 
>Burmese
>so I choosed the word NYEINWUTCHIN without knowing that this is 
>prefered
>by the military government. My wife only knows this word, so she 
>didn't
>changed it. Now I hear, that people can think, because of the use of
>this word NYEINWUTCHIN I´m collaborating with the government.
>
>I have to fight a two-fontier war, first against the the military
>government at the one side and the Burmese opposition on the other 
>side.
>Sorry, but for a two-frontier fight I have not enough power. We are a
>small group.
>In NLD top-positions are also former military members. I wonder why 
>they
>got the respect of the opposition (including me) and why we don't get
>this respect.
>
>Under the suspect of cooperating with the military government we don't
>want to continue our work. We will resume our work first, if we are 
>100
>% sure, that this idea was given up by the opposition.
>
>I need to say that according to our knowlegde this suspect was 
>breeding
>in Germany and spread from there all over the world. I think the 
>people
>who start to suspect us know who I mean.
>
>Regards
>Heiko & War War Min Schaefer
>-- 
>+========== Burma Group Tuebingen (suspended) ==============+
>| Heiko Schaefer                  | heiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx     |
>| Beim Herbstenhof 42             |                         |
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