Let’s make analysis of NLD’s words and deeds

The article is a presentation of my studies that are totally free from antagonism towards any individual or organization, but based on sincerity and objective conditions. In other words, I have made an analysis of the words and deeds of the person and the organization concerned, after studying their real political life and experiences.

The chairman’s address and the announcements and reports of the National League for Democracy’s 17th founding anniversary concluded with slanders on the Tatmadaw government, with national reconciliation, dialogue, human rights and democracy as continual reasons.

In practice, the NLD is committed itself more to putting blame on others than to self-criticism. How much effect has the political system it has followed all along the course and its deeds had on the nation and the people? The NLD should review the effects to know whether they were good or bad and advantageous or disadvantageous.

As the NLD is formed under personal influence, all its political and organizational campaigns are launched with individual heroics. What it totally lacks is collective leadership.

Hence, all the failed decisions and leadership of the individual cause losses in the party’s political and organizational sector.

Of the NLD’s many faults, I would like to recount a summary of the political and organization campaigns that left behind black marks in history.

NLD’s extraordinary relations with powers of the West obviously show its reliance on them.

Diplomats and some members of the parliaments of certain nations can be seen visiting the party almost daily. Who can say for sure the party is free from directives and support of some big nations? There is an evidence leading to it. So, it is clear that the NLD is depending on outside forces instead of building its own strength within the nation.

The NLD is rallying international community to dismiss Myanmar from the UN to isolate her, to bar her from entering the ASEAN, stop providing assistance and loans for her, to dissuade tourists from visiting the nation, to press foreign companies to withdraw their investments from Myanmar and to put political and economic pressures on her.

Within an hour after the US government imposed economic sanctions against Myanmar, the woman party leader made an announcement welcoming the sanctions and thanking the US government, and threatened foreign companies that had investments in Myanmar, saying that the NLD after taking over the State power would not allow them to run businesses in Myanmar. The NLD and its leader were trying to commit a political crime with the intention of grabbing power by dragging the nation and the people into the quagmire of poverty and hunger.

The woman met with Albright of the US who visited Myanmar during her homeward journey after attending World Women’s Conference held in China in 1995. After her meeting with Albright, the woman ordered the NLD delegates to the National Convention to boycott it, and even challenged the government to choose dialogue or utter devastation.

In 2004, the government when it resumed the National Convention invited NLD delegates to attend it. But the NLD instead of attending the Convention was insisting on the two demands that were totally impossible to accede to during the time. The NLD did not attend the Convention on its own will. But the expatriates, terrorist insurgents and some powers of the West are slandering the government as if it did not permit the party to attend the Convention. The silence of the party spokesmen in this matter shows the NLD’s political insincerity.

What I have mentioned in the above paras are the political and organizational faults of the NLD during its 17 years of existence. In the announcements and speeches of the NLD always include the word “confrontation” that is totally in contrast with national reconciliation and dialogue. In this way, the party is drifting away from the course of democracy, and causing harm to the national interest.

I would say that some western powers and their cohorts that are popularizing the NLD in the international arena should review their policy of helping the party to grab power and toppling the Tatmadaw government. If they have real wish to see democracy flourishing in Myanmar, they should make a comparison between the Tatmadaw government’s endeavours for democracy transition and serving the national interest and the perpetration of the NLD to see who is constructive and who is destructive. Without having any partiality towards any side, they should make an analysis of the words and deeds of the NLD for making a correct and bold decision.

Author :  Hla Thein Htay