Don’t tolerate dirt !

The regime must be swept away.

Small-scale demonstrations against the rise in living costs of people close to starvation are being suppressed.
This shows clearly the regime has no intention of introducing democracy nor of promoting national reconciliation.

The terrorists in power continue as before and are unrepentent.
How then can reconciliation be possible ?

Beware of any concessions they appear to make.
While on their right hand they wear a glove called “terror”, on their left hand is a glove called “deception”.

The demonstrators have already achieved a notable success.
They have exposed the regime’s lies.

To progress further, the demonstrations must spread and must involve the masses.

The ordinary people are afraid for themseves and their families, and rightly so.
The regime has a less obvious weapon than the bullet  :  starvation.

But many will risk their lives for what they believe in, IF they see a chance of success.

The monks in Pakokku have shown the way forward   :
Intimidate the intimidators.
The members of the USDA and the Swan Arr Shin do not live in military compounds and are therefore particularly vulnerable.

However army officers are not immune :

“The enemy officers and agents do not live in tightly guarded fortresses. They have lives to live too, and mundane things to do, pleasures and leisure to seek. They are vulnerable — and must be made to feel vulnerable. They must not feel that they can brutalize, carry out brutal orders in safety, with perfect immunity and impunity.

“As things now stand, especially in the early 1990s to the present, the enemy officers and cadres have been perfectly safe (or have felt safe and confident of their security and person). They are, as it were, untouchable. They can commit the most gross, brutal acts without fear, without even thinking of possible retaliation by the resistance against their person.

“This means that the resistance forces do not have any capacity whatsoever to retaliate, to strike fear in the hearts of individual enemy officers and cadres.

“This state of affairs reveals in turn the need for the resistance forces to create, or build up, or improve their intelligence units and capacity, and the need to have counter-terror strike units.”

If the demonstrations grow, beyond the regime’s ability to control them, what then ?
Either the regime resigns (it will not, unless the Ne Win way)
or it gives the order to shoot to kill.

There will be no international intervention.
The U.N. is just a debating chamber when it comes to human rights abuses by one of its members. Powerful trading blocs such as the EU are basically only interested in commerce.
Moral support may come from abroad but of practical assistance there will be none.

Therefore Burma’s salvation is up to the Burmese.

There are army officers with a sense of pride in their country and a feeling of responsibility towards their compatriots.
They should be ashamed that their country, which is potentially the wealthiest in South-East Asia, is the poorest in terms of personal income, behind even Laos and Cambodia. Burma is increasingly regarded by other nations as an outcast mongrel.
The generals in Naypyidaw have dragged the country into the dirt, where only they belong.

These patriotic officers must prepare themselves for the moment when they will disobey orders to open fire.
Instead, they will turn their weapons against those who give such orders.

It will then be their duty to establish an interim administration, pending the transfer of power to representative government.