_ by David T-Suchart

I believe that this month’s Theme article “Politics for People” is a satire lampooning at the Burmese democratic and ethnic groups, which have been enriching themselves with project money intended for building up people’s capacity to participate effectively in the struggle for overthrowing the SPDC military dictatorship.

On the other hand, funds handed out by our supporting countries for democratization of Burma are peanuts, by any standard. It is not enough even to effectively treat the symptons, let alone the dicease. Perhaps, we, the freedom fighters failed to explain the nature of the Burmese military dictatorship to our neighbors and sympathizers.

At one point in the past, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, labelled the military dictatorship as fascist. it was a correct identification of the nature of the SPDC. As a matter of fact, leaders of military regimes since Gen. Ne Win are all feudal fascists. Their ideology is a combination of extreme racism and militarism. All their policies towad us are based on hate and loathing. No wonder, gentle pressure as the international community has been imposing on the regime fails to push it toward meaningful dialogue.

One danger that has been creeping up on us is the ideology of gradual change, through unprincipled peace and development. This line has been pushed strongly by some of the military’s hired hands, in the guise of academics and, sometimes, religious leaders. It was to anaesthetize us into accepting the dictatorship as a partner in the solution of the problem, instead seeing it as the root cause of the problem, in spite of all the evidence that it is all bent on denying us freedom and enslaving us indefinitely.