Support Burmese Monks Defiance of Dictators

Posted on 20 Sep 2007 by Tlaventure

Now is the best time for the military dictators of Burma to change course and transform the army that was born from the people and for the people to really serve the people as our respected and beloved father of independence, the fallen General Aung San said, “not to persecute them.”

Now is the time for the current junta leaders of Burma (Myanmar) General Than Shwe and top echelons of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to cleanse their hands of the evil they have done and change to democracy.

They have jailed recently students demonstrating peacefully, They have hit monks peacefully demonstrating and insulted them by stopping them from demonstrations, tying their hands to poles and hitting them and slapping them in the faces, beating them and hitting them with gun butts. These they have done to the Buddhist monks who are revered by the people. They have used thugs to hit these revered monks.

What has happened to our beloved mother country Burma in the hands of Dictators Gen. Ne Win starting in 1962 to the present junta leader Than Shwe.

The pompous, opulent wedding ceremony of Than Shwe's daughter to a son of a crony with good relations to the military chiefs showed to the world how Burma's military tops can spend lavishly at their children's weddings while the rest of the people suffer and die in poverty.

This is also the time to address national reconciliation. The junta has been using the divide and rule policy on the ethnic minorities and waging civil war on those ethnic groups including civilian population cawing whole village population to leave their homes and run away into neighboring countries. The military is jailing people peacefully demonstrating for democracy. Now they have gone one step further. They are doing it to the monks.

Besides they are trying to bring the nation to shame and tatters. The culprit is the junta. They will have to go. They must change to democracy.

Tops leaders of the junta please heed the advice of the people.

Tun Tun
St. Paul
Democratic Veteran of the Burma Army