Japanese Legacy
An attitude born amidst the hardships of our patriotic revolution against invaders is "making things happen all by ourselves, only with what we have". Japanese fascist army showed us an excellent example of such efficiency by marching in with nothing but guns and plundering our villages for all the supplies they needed. Allied forces showed their feats of supply and transport by the small markets near their barracks dealing in their surpluses. But, we afforded only the Japanese way. It can be succinctly described by our motto " ေရဘူးေပါက္တာ မလိုခ်င္ဘူး ၊ ေရပါတာပဲ လိုခ်င္တယ္ " ( I don't want to hear about your leaky canteens, I just want you have the water)." It implies the leader will turn a blind eye to whatever they have done to have that water. That attitude has been carried on very well and has created corruption throughout the military. The leader gets boss's pat for easy accomplishment of his assignment ( usually a false report ) and follower's abuses are CONDONED, ALL AT THE EXPENSE OF COUNTRY'S PLIGHT.British Legacy
In 1887, Chief Commissioner of Burma, Charles H.T Crosthwaite set these unjust rules to squelch the Burmese resistance;
- all travelers must be registered by village headsman,
- all festivals can be held only by permission from British,
- all headmen must inform of all potential resistant activities,
- villagers are subjected to provide forced volunteer works, forced provision of transport ( requisition , Porter ).
We hate the British but love their suppressive laws and still practicing them UNTIL NOW.
Ref: ကိုလိုနီေခတ္ဦး ေက်း႐ြာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး " by Ma Kyan
Our Own Invention
Abuse of Laws
Later, AFPFL government and socialist government (BSPP ) set more of unjust laws to suppress political dissidents.
The worst thing ever happened to us is we never had a sound legislature and we ended up with scanty and impracticable laws. To make the law-makers job easy, we practiced " လူမုန္းရင္ မူသံုး ၊ လူခင္ရင္ မူၿပင္ " ( hate the man, use the rule; love the man, bend the rule ). Officers and judges can take bribes , government can arrest dissidents with arbitrary laws and VIP can make black money, all by tweaking laws everyone taken to be impractical.
WE DESPARATELY NEED A NEW GENERATION OF COMPETENT LAW PROFESSIONALS.
Distorting the truth
Another bad practice is in dealing with facts. We set up a ministry of truth and published reverse logic as "It's hard to get tickets because of black-marketeers and not black-marketeers appear because tickets are hard to get." It descended from very filthy legacy of leftist propagandists ; cry "Four legs good, two legs bad." with your eyes shut. They are so devoid of truth that only "People Daily Online" is vile enough to repeat them. All unpleasant news of mishaps, epidemics and natural disasters which might reflect the lousy performance of government are censored that victims cannot have the needed attention and help. Staged assemblies are forced to make false impression of people's consent. All the media-people were trained with only "retaliating the western media" in mind. Highest officials lie with straight faces.
The smokescreen is so thick everyone, friends or foe were confused and it makes impossible for everyone to help.
WE DEFINITELY NEED TO REMOVE THOSE KNAVES AND THEIR EVIL PRACTICES FROM DEPARTMENT OF MIS-INFORMATION.
Hates politicians
Throughout our history, our kings relentlessly chased down the potential rivals and mercilessly killed them. Our kings practiced " က်ဴပင္ခုတ္ ၊ က်ဴငုတ္မက်န္ " ( when mowing the reed, don't leave the stubble )" so well that the last king's crony killed all his siblings and families. Earl of Dufferin, Viceroy of India reported to British Parliament that he couldn't find a suitable candidate to take the deposed king's place and he had to decide that British rule Burma directly.
Ref: " မဟာဝန္႐ွင္ေတာ္မင္းႀကီး အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး " by Ma Kyan
Japanese invaders showed us their way of dealing with dissidents ; world infamous, inhuman tortures. British showed some respects for political prisoners. AFPFL government followed it but with some tortures. BSPP and present military government broke those records with making lives in prisons so wretched they are dubbed "cemetery of living people".
The implicit notion that government want those activists dead makes the police, inquisitors, prison guards and even prison doctors to treat them with hate and contempt. They were selectively harassed and tortured. The extreme finance cut and grafting by officers make the lives of prisoners destitute of food, clothes and medicines.
WE HAVE A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT RIGHTS. WE ARE STILL SAVAGES IN THIS ISSUE. WITHOUT RESPECTS FOR ANOTHER MAN'S RIGHTS, WE WILL NEVER HAVE THE COURAGE TO FIGHT FOR OUR OWN.
