Friday, October 12, 2007

Letter to Media

Editor Sir,

You can call us pessimists, but we would like to express our worries over future of Myanmar.At 5753rd meeting of Security Council held on Friday, 5 October 2007, Mr.Gambari said ;The Council is already aware of the following key areas in which I have been encouraging the Government to make tangible progress:
first, the release of all political prisoners, including those arrested in the course of recent demonstrations;
secondly, the promotion of an all-inclusive national reconciliation process;
thirdly, full cooperation with, and better access for, humanitarian organizations;
fourthly, the cessation of hostilities in conflict areas, including in Kayin State; and
fifthly, continued cooperation with the International Labour Organization.
These are great encouraging words for all Myanmar people. Yet, we can't be very happy as we see SPDC's furtive advances.We wish they are just our hallucinations.
Next to every release of arrested protesters, more arrest and night raids are still occurring. SPDC's newspapers are telling us clearly that they are going to imprison everyone who had active participation in the September 07 demonstrations. Security Council can, in no way, hope to see the release of any political prisoners.
General Than Shwe has condescended to negotiate with Daw Aung San Su Kyi. We suspect this is their old trick for alleviating the impending action from Security Council. After the action has been successfully averted, they will indefinitely prolong the negotiating process by setting unconscionable conditions as they already did.We can hope to see little or no changes in all five areas.
We can see that SPDC is uniting with North Korea, Cuba and Iran. The dishonorable ambition is to form an anti-western alliance in case ASEAN dump him and to secure nuclear power to fend off possible but improbable US invasion.Now, China and Myanmar threaten the whole world that Myanmar will quit UN if Security Council takes harsh measure against its blatant violation of human rights. We can sense, in SPDC's announcements, their motive to disband present NLD by declaring it illegal and thence automatically nullifying the 1990 election results. Then, they can take advantage on weakness of new re-formed NLD in upcoming referendum and election which are sure to be rigged if held without international close-up monitoring. We have rumors of SPDC's moles in local UN units. They are going to stick to their old SML ( Steal, Murder and Lie ). And yet, Mr. Wang Guangya believes "The current situation does not pose any threat to international or regional peace and security. The future of Myanmar lies in the hands of its people and its Government." We doubt the sincerity in his belief. Why Chinese government is helping Myanmar Junta ?
1. They believe democracy activists in Myanmar are not likely to win
2. They want Myanmar as an anti-western stronghold
3. They want Myanmar's help to secure Tibet and Yunnan
4. They want Arakan sea ports
5. They want to buy "TEAR GAS" from Myanmar
6. They don't want an Umbrella Sanction to destroy China's current headstart in trade with Myanmar
7. They want to avoid another Tiananmen uprising in China which was inspired by 8888 uprising in Myanmar
8. They want Myanmar's embrace for chinese residents in Myanmar
Some of these facts may apply to India and to some ASEAN countries too.But, in their desperate efforts in cooking favors with Myanmar Junta to get a chance for "Fishing in the troubled water", they are unwittingly antagonizing the people of Myanmar. In Mr.B.Raman's words;"In Myanmar, it is not just normal business with the military junta. We have been pampering it and showing undue sensitivity to it by avoiding active interactions with the civil society and pro-democracy elements and by avoiding any articulation of our views on Su Kyi and the pro-democracy movement.
Ref: http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20070720&fname=raman&sid=1&pn=2
We are afraid they might face adverse effects from Myanmar when democratic forces won the days.
These are our view and you can take us as paranoiacs. But, please remember SPDC's leaders are much worse sociopaths.We don't want gentlemen in Security Council to under-estimate the malevolence the Junta is capable of. Has anyone foreseen that North Korea will become this way ?We want UN peace-keeping forces in Myanmar.

With Respects,
A Group of Private Citizens in Myanmar.

OPEN LETTER TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL

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