The 88 Generation Students’ Announcement on the sudden increase of fuel prices

Most of the citizens of Myanmar/Burma are poor ordinaries. Seventy percent of total populations are farmers living in rural areas and depend on various machineries for irrigation, processing, transportation of corps, which require fuel, to meet their daily ends.

Most of urban populations live in satellite townships and need to commute to their places of work, factories, markets, and private industries, in cities every day. University students also need to travel to their schools, located in remote area, with much difficulties.

While the people of Myanmar/Burma have already faced general crisis to settle their daily needs, such as food, education and health care, with insufficient earnings, the sudden increase of fuel prices without precaution and warning drive them to the deeper and harder struggle.

There are plenty of natural resources in Myanmar/Burma, including natural gas. Hence, the SPDC’s recent decision to increase the price of fuel sharply is absurd and illogical.

We, the 88 Generation Students, thus seriously urge the SPDC to immediately solve the problems, such as higher rate of inflation, increase of commodity prices, and general crisis, which are the consequences of its sudden increase of fuel prices.

The 88 Generation Students
88generation@gmail.com
Rangoon, Burma
Ref: 16/2007 (88)