Where do we go now?
Jul 1st, 2008
It is obvious that we cannot go on the way we have for the past decades. Nothing, it seems can shift the Burma regime from their position of power. They cling to their thrones like leeches to human flesh, sucking as much blood as possible from their victims to keep themselves fat and will not let go until they are replete. They are like cancerous cells, killing the good cells until they take over the whole body, nothing will stop the SPDC from murdering innocent civilians and children in Burma just so that they get their own way. They are like cancerous cells who will survive above all else.
Obviously, Burma will not and cannot survive in such a sad and tragic way.
Many of us who have been human rights activists for years will know that being an activist is a thankless and difficult path that we have taken, but we go on and on hoping that one day we will see the light at the end of the tunnel.
We see our people in Burma having to suffer horrendously in the hands of the regime, how brave they had been and are at every turn of event, how they long for freedom and justice, how they struggle to survive and how they have been defeated time and time again. Many of them have given their blood reaching out for the democracy that never came within their grasp.
It is not because of our ineptitudes that we have not gained democracy. No one is to blame. Everyone does what they can; NLD do what they can according to their capability and circumstances.
The Military Regime had their act together a long time before any one thought of opposing them. They saw to it that whatever happens, they will survive, and survive as they have for 60 years.
If we think that Burma will be free of the regime one day, it will not be because they will give up the power but it will be because they cannot survive any more.
Human beings are meant to evolve spiritually by being compassionate and kind toward other living beings, but the regime will not stop at harming anyone who get in their way or are assumed by them as threats to their survival.As human beings we change and grow with time and it is to be expected and inevitable that our old outworn attitudes have no place in the present or in the future. This will ensure that the regime’s attitude will not survive longer than natural law allows it to. Like dinosaurs, if they don’t evolve, they will become extinct.
If we don’t change, natural law will take over to change us.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
This article is well said. We all must keep our hope alive and knowing that even the great empires such as the Soviet Union and many other past empires disappeared. We must believe that the juntas and their criminal regime will one day fall.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
We need only 3 kinds of weapons we have never cared to use for the past decades. If we start using them from NOW onward we could make a big different in a few years.
1. Democracy
The democratic opposition has not fully understood, embraced or practiced democracy for the past decades. So ideologically we were so weak, to say the least. LET US START FROM “A” AND EQUIP OURSELVES AND THE PEOPLE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY FROM NOW ON.
2. Strategy
The biggest strategic blunder we have made is relying too much on Daw ASSK, who was locked up in her house for such a long long time. Even after she alarmed us the last time to go ahead without waiting for her, there seems to be no clear strategy coming out from the leading parties until NOW!
LET US LEARN WHAT IT MEANS BY STRATEGY IN ITS DEEPEST SENSE. FRIENDS OF BURMA WORLDWIDE HAS BEEN TELLING US FOR MANY YEARS AND MANY TIMES THAT WE THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION LACKS STRATEGY. EVENTHEN, WE HAVE BEEN IGNORING OUR GREATEST IGNORANCE. THIS IS THE BIGGEST SIN COMMITTED EVER BY US.
3. Unity
Many among us are now looking for ALTERNATIVES. THERE IS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE BETTER THAN “UNITY”!!! This is the best and most powerful weapon and this weapon is the MOST DREADED by the dictators. That’s why they locked up our leaders like DAW ASSK, Min Ko Naing, Su Su Nway, Khun Htun Oo and the like. That is the reason they have been drivng wedges between KNU, KIO, NLD etc. etc. And we complied and divided – our UNITY even if it exist, is NOT strong enough without these leaders – who can unify us.
SO, WE MUST FIND WAYS TO BUILD VERY SOLID UNITY AMONG US ALL EVEN WHEN OUR LEADERS ARE LOCKED UP. Disunity is the biggest disservice against DAW ASSK and other leaders we could have ever done!
To summarize:-
1. Let us equip ourselves with strong ideology of democracy from now on.
2. Let us learn about STRATEGY. (The dictators are experts on this).
3. Let us find ways together to unite among ourselves even if we have no single leader to unify us at this moment.
Let us share opinions further.
Sincerely,
Salai Kipp Kho Lian
Any comment or criticism will be appreciated and welcome.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:09 am
I believe the Junta will fall.
Ozymandias
written in 1817 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Your article is very well written, Feraya.
Solidarity makes strong.
Yours sincerely,
Neill Staurland,
Norway
July 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Please don’t use the name Suu Kyi. You can use Suu or full name Aung San Suu Kyi.
Cho Aung Than
Yankin,
Rangoon, Burma.
July 12th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
We, fighters of freedom and democracy for Burma should know also about the SPDC’s ideology, which is fascism (Nazism). Only then, will we be able to fight against the SPDC in the sphere of ideology, effectively.
The fascism of the SPDC is based on extreme racism or ultra-nationalism (belief in master race, or in racial superiority)and militarism, underpinned by feudalism. We may term it as feudal fascism.
The organizing principles of the fascists are strict top-down control, the cult of unity, strength and purity. Fascists readily resort to brute force, treachery and lies to achieve their objectives. They have no respect for human dignity and zero tolerance for all other ideologies. These lead to monumental arrogance of the fascists and hate policy towards all oppositions.
Fighters against facism sometimes have a tendency to become fascists themselves, in a reactionary response. We must guard against such tendency, and firmly believe in the principles of democracy and struggle on.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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