OPEN LETTER TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL
Sirs in Security Council,
Subject: Request from Myanmar for help
Please forgive us for uncouth inappropriateness in submitting for help this way.We request you to protect our non-violence efforts to rebuild Myanmar into a peaceful and democratic nation from persecution of Military Junta. Our backwardness and all-round limitations made this request a desperate clutch for the straws.For us, you are the highest intelligence that wields the ultimate power for the highest aims of humankind, the world peace. We believe you will overcome all technicalities and substantiate the noble ambition set forth in the UN Charter."To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small."
We would like to make special request to China and Russia who previously have shown sympathy for Myanmar Junta.We have great admirations for your struggles for freedom from dictators and invaders, for your sacrifices to earn back the right to shape your own future and of your great determination in realizing your political beliefs. You have set the most brilliant examples of people's struggle for freedom in Eastern Globe. We hope, if you take our fight as worthy as your own, you will not let down our struggle for freedom just because of buying some "TEAR" gas, paranoid geopolitics and power balance in the region. We are not fighting for a political ideology or regional power. We fight to end the dictatorship, to re-establish the sovereignty of people, to remove the fear and to enjoy the freedom in our daily lives. We still will practice non-alignment but not immobile and frigid one which ignores the end of cold war and beginning of globalized communication and economy. We definitely will be the better neighboring friend without suicidal willfulness of present Junta.
Please let us describe about the present status of our struggle for freedom. Our one and the only military have been being misused by generals bigoted with military supremacy. They are using the military to oppress the people they are supposed to protect. Our Military is the only strong organization in Myanmar as formation of NGO is forbidden except a few vassal ones set up to control the strata of people. The uniqueness of situation in Myanmar is the monstrous disproportion between oppressor and the oppressed. A handful of generals are using the power of combined forces and most of country's GDP to oppress the nation with unprecedented sophistry. To persecute demonstrators under the eyes of the whole world, without getting implicated, they are using a mixture of coerced civilians as cover, riot police as major inflictor, soldiers in uniform as executioner, commanding officers in plain clothes, convicted criminals disguised as armed demonstrators. They have difficulty in finding a pretext for brutal killing as in done in 1988 as demonstrators have learnt from history and are armed with nothing but Buddhist chant and pure courage. They usually commit crimes on democracy activists after cutting off telephone system, internet access and electricity, in total darkness. They forced millions of intimidated people and monks to say false incriminating words against the fearless few. They are using state-run media to blame the killed for the killing and suppressing independent media from reporting the truth, even by shooting down photo-journalists. After narrowly escaping the assassination attempt, Daw Aung San Su Kyi was home-arrested until now, to prevent her own words on the assassination.
The control of all the country's resources, unscrupulous use of deadly force, brazen-faced lies, legislature and judiciary subordinate to whims of generals, monopoly of media and base machinations amount to a Goliath to democracy activists, a tiny David. They are wolves among the sheep, having everything their own way.
For the non-organized, peace-loving people to gather enough courage to rise up against this formidable system took us just about 20 years of time, torment and tears. The more time you take for action, the longer Myanmar's misery become. By hesitating to protect the non-violence movement, activists are being compelled both by our Military and International to pick up arms for self-defense. That surely will give our Military a chance for bloodbath and perhaps it will make Myanmar fully eligible for UN Security Council's intervention. The world has seen that no amount of economic sanction and "constructive engagement" can generate enough political pressure to replace the hard-liner generals with younger, modernized new generation of military officers.
We do not ask UN soldiers to shed their blood for our own freedom. But, we really need a stronger UN presence to prevent military scale violation of our basic human rights. If the respected UN Security Council can secure our basic human rights as our solid stepping stone, we will be able to secure much needed "National Reconciliation" and build a peaceful and democratic Nation by combined efforts of Reformed Myanmar Military, Ethnic groups and Political leaders.
We would like to have UN Peace-Keeping forces in Myanmar to safeguard against military scale persecution of non-violence movement and independent media. We would like to request the UN to conduct a poll in Myanmar for a desire to have UN Peace-Keeping forces in Myanmar. We will be very glad and will welcome any "Investigation and Mediation" attempt from UN Security Council. We hope the noble ambition of UN Security Council can surpass any technical difficulties to help us.
with due respects,
A Group of Private Citizens in Myanmar
