A COUP IS INDISPENSABLE INSIDE THE ARMY, NOT IN THE EXILED COMMUNITY 

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_ By Ethan Bourne
 According to inside sources, the military regime has planned to install a puppet civilian government since October, 2004. To avert attention and trick the nation and the international community, Ne Win formed a Socialist party in which all appointed delegates had to say yes to him within and without the Hluttaw, the Burmese congress. That is how the four generals in Burma are planning to do again. Therefore, the new civilian government in Burma will not be double Dutch to the Burmese and the international community. But it will be the same old record played by Ne Win. Now the player will be Than Shwe and his followers. No wonder Aung San Suu Kyi said “Let’s hope for the best but prepare for the worst.”

Foreign intervention may be necessary to bring change to Burma. Before foreign assistance comes, change inside the army is necessary. A coup must be staged and when the coup is staged and successful, foreign assistance will arrive. Foreign assistance will arrive even in the middle of a coup. A few brave officers need to get organized and stage a coup. These brave officers are a few colonels, majors and captains who will lead a coup that will change the fate of the Burmese people. The day they stage the coup they are colonels, majors and captains. The next day they will become Major Generals, Brigadier Generals and Colonels. [An article on “How To Stage A Coup” will be posted.] Captain Ohn Gyaw Myint attempted a coup in 1976. Unfortunately the coup was seen as undesirable by the U.S. Government at that time because the USG was having a good relation with Ne Win’s regime. Today’s young, brave officers in the army should not worry about that because the CIA is having a very bad relation with the current military regime. When General Khin Nyunt was in power, CIA was having a bad relation with the Burmese military regime but things were making progress. A few of General Khin Nyunt’s officers were sent to CIA for further trainings. When General Khin Nyunt and his OCMI were purged, the CIA lost its sources in the army. Today the CIA is having far worse relations with the Burmese military brass hats who have no understanding of values of intelligence agents, sources and operatives. When and if these young officers stage a coup, the CIA will help.

An exiled government is necessary and there should be only one exiled government that will campaign arduously for change inside Burma. But what if the ruling military junta illegally nullifies the 1990 elections results? What will happen to the exiled government, NCGUB? In the meantime there are controversial disputes over the effectiveness of the exiled government. No matter what there must be an exiled government and it must have a military wing like it does now. However, that military wing should be actively involved in disrupting the military regime’s daily official business. Whether NCGUB remains as an exile government or a new exile government is to be formed, it should and must be involved as a forceful parallel government to the military regime in Burma. There should not be two parallel governments in exile. A coup is necessary inside the Burmese army, not in the exiled community abroad. But if the actions of NCGUB are not acceptable to the democratic forces including NLD and the students who started the revolution, the organization must be reformed or purged and a new GIE is indispensable.