To see the tricks of colonialists

As for some outsiders and opponents, democracy transition in Myanmar means opposing and attacking the Tatmadaw government with the misconception — democracy can be achieved only when tyranny falls — while branding it as a military junta. The West group according to its policy of dictatorship destruction and democracy installation, invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, but rather than seeing a quiet democracy transition in both countries, it finds itself unable to restore peace and stability in Afghanistan, while failing to stop the daily killings and destruction of property in Iraq. However, in an attempt to advocate the West’s destructive policy, the radio stations — BBC, VOA and RFA — are airing daily news reports in various attractive forms to oppose the Tatmadaw and to portray it as a military tyranny. In its interview programme broadcast on 4 February 2005 late evening, the BBC announced that the US presented US$ 50,000 to an ex-student as award of endurance as he had served long-term imprisonment.

In this world today, nations of the West group in creating their lackey countries are running a propaganda machine slandering the existing governments around the world through various means to make peoples of those countries hate their own governments. They are also organizing individuals and organizations having problems with their own governments, and opponents by presenting a variety of titles and awards and financial assistance to put them under their domination, while deceiving the world and the respective countries to think them as real patriots and democracy heroes. Sometimes, the West bloc nations present highest titles and awards to leaders of the governments in power with the sole intention of preventing them from taking actions against opponents who are attacking their own governments in power with conspiracies against their own nations and peoples. For example, the West awarded Nobel Peace Prize to President Gorbachev to prevent him from doing his own work of warding off the secessionist attempts to break up the Soviet Union. As Gorbachev could not do his own job, the Soviet Union broke up into 15 different sovereign states.

With this deception in mind, the colonialists are trying to organize the ex-student who once had different opinions with the government. In the interview the BBC asked the ex-student about his feeling after receiving the award.

The ex-student answered, “What reflects in my mind is the sandals that were left behind on the road during the 1988 unrest, something that reminds me of my fellow demonstrators.”

The BBC then asked, “To what degree the people’s wish of 1988 has been realized?”

His answer was, ”Up to now, nothing has been realized.” The first error that is still causing delay in Myanmar’s democracy transition is the reverse outlook on the events. During the unrest, neither the then government of Dr Maung Maung nor today’s NLD leaders who took the leading role in the unrest were able to restore national peace and stability. At the time, the underground elements of the Burma Communist Party were forcing the people to seize police stations in North Okkalapa and Sagaing, a similar tactic used by the insurgents in seizing government camps and towns to grab power in 1948. The anarchists were also looting and destroying State-owned and people’s property, and at the same time they were killing and beheading innocent persons with false accusations in order to scare away people from preventing their crime. Because of anarchy that ruled the nation, the Tatmadaw had no alternative, but had to take over the State duties to save the nation from the dangers of anarchists and UGs who tried to seize power.

But the opponents from inside and outside the nation and the West block have reversed the events and seen the Tatmadaw’s endeavours as democracy destruction and coup.

The consequences of their wrong view have led them to see the Tatmadaw as a military junta. They are praising the persons opposing the market economy and advocating economic sanctions for eruption of a civil commotion, committing terrorist acts to cause unrest, and perpetrating confrontations to endanger State stability, community peace and tranquillity, and national re-consolidation, honouring destructionists as democracy activists, while deceiving the international community. In reality their acts will lead to reducing the productivity and opposing democracy.

Soon after taking over the State duties, the government dissolved the single party system and centralized economy in Myanmar, and paved the way for the market-oriented economy and multi-party system to flourish in the nation. In other words, the Tatmadaw government acknowledged the people’s wish and realized their wish on their behalf.

Later, it laid down the 12 political, economic and social objectives, the real essence of democracy and development. The people are now enjoying higher living standard and economic progress as never before thanks to the all-out efforts of the Tatmadaw to promote farming and industry in realizing the people’s wish of 1988.

As there were oppositions to the government’s advice to write a constitution to realize the 1990 election results and its pledge to assist the work, it had to play a leading role in holding the National Convention. However, it had to adjourn the National Convention due to confrontations resulting from the colonialist instigation. The Tatmadaw laid down and internationally declared the seven-point Road Map on 30 August 2003 to free the nation from facing any attempts to delay the process of constitution drawing work. The government is now in the process of holding the Convention to install a democratic republic, the genuine wish of the people.

Moreover, the government’s tireless efforts for multi-sectorial development is also to realize the wish of 1988. Thus, all those wishing to develop the nation should have the correct and objective outlook rather than imaginary views. They should also study the modern political science, and the failure to do so will lead to deceiving others and themselves.

The fall of productivity during the World War I led to the rise of Nazism in Germany and Fascism in Italy and Japan, the ideologies that ignited the World War II. The downfall of global production capacity after the WW II paved the way for the imaginary opportunist leftists to set up single party dictatorship and centralized economic system in East Europe and encouraged anti-colonialist insurgencies throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America to adopt socialism. Because of the multi coloured insurgency in Myanmar, neither the ruling AFPFL party nor the opposition could control the national situation. Hence, the Tatmadaw had to take over the State duties.

History stands witness to the fact that development of capitalist economies in England and America raised the production of the two nations, followed by the flourishing of parliamentary democratic administrative systems in both.

The persons in disregard of the historical evidence are supporting terrorism, wars, insurgency and sanctions, that can decrease the productivity. They are claiming these to be the cause of democracy; in reality they are the ones who are deceiving themselves and others. So I would like to warn the people of Myanmar to see the tricks and deceits of the colonialists.

Author : Maung Nyattra