STAGE A COUP today AND BECOME HEROES tomorrow
Feb 11th, 2008
STAGE A COUP today AND BECOME HEROES tomorrow
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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. And Burma will be transformed into a democracy.
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February 20th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Dear Ethan,
You may have been confused the military in Burma with the one in neighbouring Thailand. In Thailand, staging a coup has almost become a ritual just as military stages ‘military exercises’. In the Burmese military everyone is checked and counter checked with everyone that it is almost like George Orwell’s 1984.
To me, it is unlikely but not impossible. According to some sources the military regime has no other choice but to re-instate former retired/sacked deputy intelligence chief Major General Kyaw Win and some of the former intelligence officers, which indicates that the apparatus that the regime have was not up to the task. Good if they can be trusted. Than Shwe, on the other hand, might be using the second law of power which says, “Be wary of friends – they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoilt and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.”
Inside the Burmese military one can not be free from being monitored when he reach the stage of Lt-Col. For someone to stage a coup, they must not only be daring but young and fully committed to sacrifice their lives for the country. Pigs might fly but you won’t find any. One of my colleagues who left us to join the OTS reminded us that he made the choice not because he love the country but because he loves ‘himself’. His explanation is this, once he is in the military and if by any bad luck he became wounded and discharged for his disability he will still have the opportunity to become an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the public service. The only time it wouldn’t work to his favour was that if he was captured by the communists and then released. He won’t be trusted any more.
Ethan, I think you should put yourself in the shoes of a military official in Burma and stop thinking like one in any other military. These are war fighters in uniforms who took the form of a military but in fact they are just a bunch of thugs with arms.