Favouring a monkey without knowing its real character

Terrorist acts have killed and destroyed and are killing and destroying lives and property of the people of Myanmar. The terrorist gangs under the names — NCUB, NCGUB, FTUB, ABSDF, SSA-S and VBSW — are hatching plots to ruin the interest of Myanmar and her people, with the help of their masters, while taking refuge at Myanmar-Thai border and in some big countries of the West.

Those gangs are shouting at the top of their voice to deceive the international community to come to believe that their destructive acts are meant for flourishing of democracy in Myanmar. They in reality are trying to get into and dominate the UN and its subordinate agencies, with the help and support of global neo-colonialists to put political and economic pressures on Myanmar.

They in collusion with the so-called politicians and MPs who are servants and under the influences of global neo-colonialists have made attempts to trick the UN Security Council to pave the way for the international community to interfere in the Myanmar’s internal affairs and to expel the nation from the ASEAN.

Under the arrangements and directives of global neo-colonialists, fugitives and terrorists of Myanmar are trying to deceive the UN agencies, the ASEAN and the ILO to oppress and manipulate Myanmar in her political and economic affairs, with groundless excuses.

Together with the report — Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in the Burma — of former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Bishop Desmond Tutu, the so-called group by the name “MPs of ASEAN nations” issued a report demanding the ASEAN to expel Myanmar from the Association. Actually, the reports are nothing more than an evil plot of the worst of its kind that is unrealistic and bearing negative views, devoid of any sense of dignity.

Why? Because the false accusation concerning the Tatmadaw’s forced recruitment of over 70,000 child soldiers is the result of the plot made by a colonialist spy agency under the guise of an NGO in collusion with 20 or so fugitives and deserters. The slander regarding the drug trafficking case is in contrast with the objective conditions of Myanmar. In addition, the slander ignores Myanmar’s self-reliant efforts to wipe out the problem of narcotics as a national task. The truth is that the UNODC report indicated a 73 per cent decrease in the poppy cultivation in Myanmar during the period from 1996 to 2004. Moreover, Myanmar has 19 times torched and destroyed narcotic drugs whose value would be at US$ 14.661 billion in the presence of diplomats and the national people. The nation has already declared some of its former poppy growing areas drug free zones. She has also signed the MoU with other countries of the Mekong Subregion to make the whole subregion a drug free zone.

The repeated fabricated accusations on violation of democracy and human rights in Myanmar show the conspirators’ ill will towards the country. Myanmars have the lovely tradition of helping one another in social undertakings in urban as well as in rural areas. They, out of goodwill, build roads, bridges, lakes and religious buildings through collective efforts and lend a helping hand in funeral services. The accusations branding our fine traditions as forced labour and human rights violations are just slanders the perpetrators are referring to the social norms of the West as the standard practice of human beings.

The Myanmar government and the people laid down the seven-point Road Map and are implementing it for emergence of a peaceful, modern and developed discipline-flourishing democratic state, the ultimate goal of the nation. Myanmar is now in the process of successfully holding the National Convention, the foundation of the Road Map. Over 1,000 delegates in which 60 per cent of them are national races delegates and 40 per cent representatives of political parties and people from all walks of life are actively holding discussions and laying down basic principles for framing a new constitution. The country and the government are making practical efforts for democratization process. They are launching the democracy transition not only as a show.

At the same time, the politicians of the so-called group of ASEAN MPs who are pressing their respective governments to expel Myanmar from the Association unless the Myanmar government accepts the demand of releasing leaders of the National League for Democracy and the so-called political prisoners and the dialogue. But the demands are no more than the act of beating about the bush.

The principle — Non-interference in the internal affairs of one another — is clearly stated in the fundamental principles of the ASEAN, and the UN Charter firmly states the principle — Mutual respect for the independence, sovereignty, equality, territorial integrity, and national identity of all member nations.

It is an undeniable fact that the government after taking control of the internal situation permitted formation of political parties for flourishing of democracy in the nation. It held a free and fair election on 27 May 1990. It also issued the Notification No 1/90 inviting all political parties to come forward and make coordination with it for shaping a peaceful and stable future. But sadly, the NLD with excessive pride strongly rejected the government’s proposal saying that it would not follow the government’s plan. The NLD demanded convening of the parliament and the transfer of power first, and the holding of the National Convention second. While insisting the demand, it held a clandestine meeting at the embassy of a certain western nation to set up a parallel government, a crime, the NLD cannot hide.

First the NLD attended the National Convention sponsored by the government to draft a new constitution. But later, it started to oppose the National Convention and then walked out of it on own volition under orders of its colonialist masters. It is an unforgettable misdeed of the NLD.

The NLD went so far that it even formed the illegal so-called Pyithu Hluttaw Representative Committee, and sent an ultimatum to the government to call the parliament within 60 days. It launched opposition against the government by forming the Pyitthu Hluttaw Representative Committee without the existence of the parliament and issued an announcement saying that the party could not agree to and acknowledge the existing laws and bylaws. However, there are a lot of evidences that the government exercised much patience and tolerance to solve the problem and control the tense situation created by the NLD.

Some western powers, the so-called ASEAN MPs and the Nobel laureates are inflicting slanders on Myanmar, while totally believing and relying on the information sent to them by fugitives, expatriates and terrorists, without studying the above-mentioned conditions in an objective way. It is time they had the correct vision after amending their stand and attitude, instead of always seeing Myanmar from the negative point of view.

NCUB, NCGUB, FTUB, ABSDF, SSA-S and VBSW under the guise of democracy advocates are committing terrorist acts inside Myanmar while taking refuge at Myanmar-Thai border and in some western nations. Those gangs murdered innocent people, hijacked passenger planes, hatched plots to assassinate State leaders and high level officials including the late Lt-Gen Tin Oo, in which a university teacher was killed by a parcel bomb, and plotted to blow up some Myanmar missions abroad, seized the Myanmar Embassy and a hospital in Thailand, and blew up bombs at Dagon Centre, Junction-8 and Yangon Trade Centre in the city.

In this age, the common enemy of all nations and peoples of the world is terrorism that is totally in contrast with democracy. In this context, the powers which practise and advocate democracy, politicians and eminent persons should not believe all the slanders sent to them by the NCUB, NCGUB, FTUB, ABSDF, SSA-S and VBSW. They should not launch lopsided and unjust accusations against Myanmar, without thoroughly analyzing the information the gangs have sent to them. If they do so, they will be like favouring a monkey without knowing its real character with shame and disgrace as the answer.

Author : Hein Htet Soe