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The depth of misery never before experienced in Burma’s history, as witnessed by the overwhelming cry and groan of the people, is the truth.
Myanmar soldiers’ attacks on monasteries, turning them into war zones, arresting and disrobing the sons of Buddha, deceiving the younger future generation of Burma, coercing ignorant individuals to supply false evidence against innocent people, and arresting and assaulting citizens under illegal and unjust laws is the real truth, witnessed by the anguished people of Burma.
Our own country, our own land, our own home, our own monastic abodes where we no longer feel safe to stay, sleep, and eat; the Sangha, the young people, and the ordinary citizens on the run and in hiding night and day from illegal abuses of the government, unreported in the daily news, is the genuine truth.
To stand once more among other nations with pride in a brighter future, Burma can no longer consent to the continuation of an unlawful dictatorship and its abusive rules, and this is a practical truth.
People can no longer prosper under the unjust system of the Myanmar government, as a day’s earning cannot buy a morning’s meal; this common hardship of ordinary Burmese people, not reported in the media, is the real truth.
Recent events in Burma, as witnessed by the people and the ’07 new generation students, prove that the struggle for human rights by the previous and succeeding generation is entirely just. By assuming individual responsibility, the ’07 new generation students will continue to carry on the historic burden dutifully born by the elder student leaders. The younger generation and the people of Burma are finally awakened to the call to carry on the struggle, until the abusive system of government is abolished.
Though sent away from families, and systematically isolated from the general public and other students in remote campuses, we must find ways to assemble together in our shared beliefs and unity, with the goal of abolishing the evil dictatorship. It is now the time to abolish the dictatorship benefiting only a few and to establish a political system benefiting people from all walks of life and ethnic nationalities of Burma.

Translated by May Ng, member of Justice for Human Rights in Burma

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