_ By Victor Sang Khambil

The world is a battlefield where rivalry of men in open hostility opposed each other in search of each own paradise. On great mountains to deepest canyons and even in seas and open oceans, nothing hinders men to soldier through and write endless history. From building the nation to defending it, we are all born with our own responsibility to live and survive oneself. No one is born from heaven but on earth with the same agony of a mother. As today’s children are tomorrow’s generation, we are all the products of the past. Every country has each of their hero and villain. Union of Burma (Now changed into Myanmar in 1993) also has the history of the national army. Literally the first army in Burmese history was founded by General Aung San in the intents and purpose of gaining Independence from British Empire in 1930s. The famous “Thirty Comrades” in Burmese independence movement history who first fought during the heat of World War II were the stepping stone to lay foundation of today Burmese military regime.

But wrong guys in Burmese Army seized the reign of power since 1962 and malfunctioned all the systems leading the nation into crisis after crisis ever since. Civilians were locked under misruling menace and insidiously conceived is the public nuisance over military rulers. After 26 dormant years of public anger under Ne Win’s military rule, the boisterous outburst of nationwide demonstration against military rule in 1988 not only topple Ne Win’s despotic rule but installed the more destructive and fiercer ruler since then. It was a big showdown between Ne Win and innocent civilians and also showing how evilly Ne Win prepared during his 26 years reign to butcher everyone in Burma in case of any rising up against him. The people were left dumbfounded to see the killing field and questioned themselves how can the army they revered as heroes of Burmese Independence movement bred these murderous criminals. The biggest torrential-political maelstrom ever struck off on the soil of Burma between rulers and the ruled on 08.08.88 was arguably one of the bloodiest day of modern civilian in the world.

Where is the true Burmese army who fought the occupiers and defended the nation from enemy and injustices? The army we see today in Burma is fox in sheep cloth. The Burmese civilians are without their genuine shepherd where foxes wore shepherd clothes and kill them, eat them everyday. The true and most rewarding soldier born out of the genuine army for the people of Burma is now behind bar. The military rulers in Burma deprive civilians off survival rights and absorb them into the expanding arm forces where the civilians’ only struggle is basic survival. The military regime is a huge python that preys on starving civilians and gulp them all to make larger it body. Even though Union of Burma (Myanmar) is one of the poorest nations on earth, the military strength grows mightier each day through unjust expansion. Young children who can not even load M16 rifle at their shoulders are now conscripted into Myanmar military. The regime may have an excuse to explain why child soldiers are now included in the military by saying that young children join the army by their own will not by force.

In fact, some young children who join Myanmar army may not be conscripted but inexorably ensnared by the regime through systematic survival dearth they put on them. The men-made disaster in Burma is a factor behind all these. Burma had most decorative national army who salvaged the people from enemies in the past, but the now Myanmar is armless… meaning no national army but hordes of uniformed sadistic beasts who just kill and destroy the people they are supposed to defend. The lawless regime is the banality of evil in Burma since 1962. In a combat zone, with its consistent and unpredictable threat of state-sponsored terrorism and falsified government agenda, their maltreatment of civilians has intensified in most deplorable ways. Continuing reports from international condemnations surely describe that a climate of dehumanization of civilians has been realized by military generals in Myanmar; how reprehensible their behaviours are!

If the founding fathers of Burmese Army resurrect today and see what the current military regime is doing, they will instead quickly go back underneath the earth thinking they have mistakenly resurrected in a wrong country which is infested by wild beasts. As long as the remnants of communist Ne Win in Myanmar military regime are not culled, the country will be infested with military dictatorship. As Burma is multi ethnic, multicultural nation with distinctive political tradition, culture, religious, and literature, the issue of diversity should be also respected. But the military regime uses an excuse of political mismatch caused by ethnic diversity, religious rights and different traditions among Burmese nationalities and justify themselves as if defending the nation from disintegration.

On March 27, 2007, Myanmar Military Regime will celebrate the 62nd Anniversary of “Arm Force Day” in which the absolute dictator of Myanmar will banally spew out loads of deprecation against the most rewarding people’s soldier and people’s democracy. The military generals in Myanmar can not sense that the Force of Democracy is just biding the best time to erase them out of global face. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The only most decorative and worthwhile soldier of the people is still behind bar in Burma under the heaviest guard of the uncivilized army.