Dear All,
Where did she gone wrong? That's an interesting question. There may be
many answers, I am sure. Some people might come back with where did
Tatmadaw go wrong? But one has to ask onself question. what one would
do when one faced with the situation like we had in Myanmar?
Myanmar saying is " Myin Myin Jin - Sauk Ne Htwin ". As soon as Ma Su
Kyi came on the Myanmar's political scene, that was what she did.
Attack and attack, because attack is the best defence. After all she
is the daughter of our great General Aung San. But she is not Aung
San.
Myanmars also use to say " Myin Myin Jin Be Chit Me De ". In Myanmar
to day it is not the case.
Myanmar opposition in their smear campaign against Tatmadaw and its
leaders see them as fascist Tatmadaw. That is from their view, from
their perspective of cause.
Soldiers are tough, and they are rough, that is how they were trained.
They cannot allow anybody to walkover them.
In many countries all over the world the soldiers are being train to
be tough and rough, they are not even suppose to smile. They are
isolated from the public. It is very rear to see soldiers on the
streets in peace time. They are living in the camps or in their
quarters most of the time. You may see them some times as they are
moving camps from one place to another. They stayed well away from the
public.
In Myanmar and many other South East Asian nations that is different.
Most of the time, these soldiers are to deal with the detraining
situation in their own country helping local police, to maintain law
and order. It is becoming common that the military is involve in
politic. Myanmar is not alone. All the military are not that good at
public relations. They know only to give orders and to obey orders.
Military involvements in politic depends on cir***stances, and
situations. Military coup in our parts of the world which is South
East Asia or in Africa are nothing news. We could say former colonies
of European nations are experiencing military coupe once or more.
WHY?
We have seen Ma Su Kyi in person or on the world television many
times. She is a double character her attitude, her behaviour changes
on situation and under cir***stances from time to time
If the opposition leader Ma Su Kyi can be tough and rough,without the
military training , what can we expect of the Tatmadaw leaders and
Tatmadaw men. One thing is , nobody will smile at you if you don't
smile at him. Nobody will treat you as a friend if you treat them as
enemies. Nobody will welcome you if you don't want them.
If we can not expect sweat and gentle from Ma Su Kyi, we can't expect
kind and sentimental from the Tatmadaw. Tatmadaw men are trained to
deal with the rough and tough situation, so they must be tougher and
rougher.
Ma Su Kyi can create a Tatmadaw full of Buddhist Monks, if she ever
get into power.
The military in Myanmar may have their weak points, but no opposition
made them better, instead made them worse, should I say.
In Afghanistan and In Iraq, that is another kind of military coupe,
but not by the national army but by foreign armies , it is called
invasion. that's. Some countries after the WW II , they still have
foreign occupational forces intact in their country namely in Germany
and in Japan. What do they call them When will these occupational
force leave those countries is anybody guess. Today Nato expansion to
the East is for what? Who is heading the Nato?
In Myanmar it is sad to know that in the opposition NLD, there are
those who were serving the nation and the people as high ranking
military officers. They want to have power in turn to serve the
nation , to serve the people again. They felt they were left out They
may not like to stay doping nothing . As long as they were in the
Tatmadaw or as long as they are living they feel that they have to do
something to serve the nation, to serve the people.
Though they did not agree with their comrades in arm or their superior
while they were in the Tatmadaw, or in my view they were going with
the flow, because they had to obey orders. The day they decided to
disobey order they got into trouble, they got sacked, some of them got
into prison etc. We the people did not know case by case. We had no
right to know anything about what happened. We had to be happy on hear
say and accept the rumours.
From the time they were sacked , they became ordinary civilian, they
did not have to obey military orders, but they still have to abide by
the laws of the land. That is not the point, the point is these men
did not do anything for the nation or for the people. Their
responsibility and duties for the nation and for the people had ended
from the time they were sacked., dismissed.
Among them was one particular man called Bogyoke Aung Gyi. Many people
called him many names depended on how they saw him. He was in the even
in the Revolutionary Council be fore BSPP.
When he saw what was happening to the nation and he was not happy, he
was not satisfied . Not for himself it was for the nation, it was for
the people. He was worried. He decided to do something about it. So he
wrote a letter to Gen Ne Win who was the head of State, his former
superior officer and told him what he was seeing in the country as a
civilian , his famous letter.
That was U Aung Gyi and his one man democracy , that was a man, just
one man exercising his human rights. One man doing his responsibility
and his duty as ex Tatmadaw personnel or as an ordinary civilian, as a
citizen. Nobody could say what he did was wrong , they can only say he
was right in his way. Especially without causing chaos in the country,
without breaking any law and order, without inciting or instigating
any one. He did it in a very peaceful way, non- violent way, in theory
as well as in practice.
All because he was a disciplined man, all because he has the common
sense.
In 1988 and onwards this man of discipline namely U Aung Gyi, had to
leave the politic or he was kicked out by others like Ma Su Kyi. U
Aung Gyi did what he had to do, what needs to be done for the nation,
for the people, without craving for any power, not for self interest,
not for his benefit. While he was in the opposition momentarily he
could not go with the flow or he could not follow others so called
make****ft, politician, upstarts, who were risking peoples' lives while
they were at a safe distance, Besides U Aung Gyi could not agree with
violence, he could not agree with breaking law and order, he could not
agree with the chaos.
To repeat what the Chairman of the NLD, U Chit Khaing referred to the
democracy uprising of 1988 said, " People claiming to want democracy
have been cutting off peoples' head and been looting stores ". Many of
the the people at that meeting were incensed at the derogatory words,
and as a result some of the parties decided tom break off their
alliance with the NLD. )
Here the person whom translate that event used the word " DEROGATORY"
why did he used that word, he alone will know. Possibilities were, U
Chit Khaing was telling the truth, so other parties allied to NLD
broke off with NLD.
It showed that NLD could not handle the Truth. Because the Truth
hurts. NLD and its followers may be shouting for democracy and human
rights. But they don't seemed to know what those means. How to achieve
those in non- violent way, in peaceful way.
What had happened showed clearly that NLD could not handle the mob,
NLD could not handle its own people, all in all NLD doesn't know its
own people, the people don't want to know NLD . In fact they were
using one another.
They have already rejected U Aung Gyi. Didn't they?
Ma Su Kyi was born on the 19th of June 1945. When her father General
Aung San brought the Imperial Japanese into Burma , nobody knows where
Ma Su Kyo was . That was the years British came back to Burma and the
Japanese retreated . Ma Su Kyi did not have a chance to know about
"FASCISM"whether it was black or white. In 1948 British went back to
England Ma Su Kyi was three years old. She did not have a taste of
colonial rule in Burma. Because she never was living under the British
rule in Myanmar. I don't blame her for not knowing, because she was
just a kid. When Ko Aung San died on the 19th July 1947, she was two
years old, he did not have a chance to know his daughter or Ma Su Kyi
to her father. Ko Aung San was a very busy man at that time for the
nation and for the people. .
Since Ma Su Kyi came into Myanma politic, unwittingly or wittingly her
verbal attacks on U Ne Win, on Sr. General Saw Maung were much more
than necessary in any politic. In my view her smear campaign against
these two, were based on the information she received from her
informers. Her indirect and direct attacks on Myanma Tatmadaw were far
beyond. Nobody could stop her, nobody could reason with her. Nobody
could make her see the realities. She gone blind.
George W Bush and Tony Blair said right or wrong they acted on the
information they received, when they launched war on Iraq. Many things
were said, to justify their actions, they said it was war against
terrorism they said it was the regime change, they said to established
democracy , they said Oiraqia invited them. They said to liberate the
Iraqis.
May be George W Bush and Tony Blair received the instructions from the
NLD led by Ma Su Kyi or Ma Su Kyi and NLD got the instructions from US
and UK long before those two went to war on Iraq. to act on
information they received. It could well be a coincident in politic in
these two cases.
What Ma Su Kyi did not know was why her father General Aung San fought
against the British. What Ma SU Kyi did not know was when her
husband's forefather were ruling Burma, it was not democracy, it was
not human rights. If only Ma Su Kyi had studied, Myanmar history
written by Myanmar historian and other historian including British in
international language ( English )
she would have find out what a FASCISM is in real meaning and how it
came to exit in Myanmar . She married to an Englishman. She may think
English ways are the best. She herself became a product of English,
with the label, " made in England ", to the delight of some Myanmars,
who prefers foreign made, especially made in England.
So it could be said, that smear campaign against Myanmar leaders were
not invented by Ma Su Kyi but by the Britishsince 1824. Ma SU Kyi is
just following the British steps. In the end she becomes a monkey
which is looking in the mirror, holding a banana. .
On the 18th July 1989 , Ma Su Kyi said, " Today we can see clearly
from the behaviour of SLORC , that our country is in the grip of
fascists. We must struggle hard to resist this fascism."
Ko Aung San and 30 comrades were trained by the Japanese Imperial
Army. Ko Aung San and 30 comrades brought the Imperial Japanese Army
into Myanmar., voluntarily We were told that Japanese were the
fascists we did not know Myanmar Tatmadaw was a fascist as well. So
our leaders founded Anti Fascist Peoples Freedom League. If Japanese
were the fascist, If German were the Nazi, what were the British. If
the British were so good why did Ko Aung San and Myanmar leaders
revolt against British, why did they kick them out? My Su Kyi should
answer that question, because her father was involved.
It is said that Burmese ( Myanmars) may have been beheaded by the
rulers as punishment , but they were never slapped on their face.
Since Ko Aung San and 30 comrades brought the Japanese willingly into
Burma, Burmese were not only slapped, they were tortured, nails pulled
out, raped and killed at will. Was Ko Aung San her father responsible
for all those?
Before I go on, I have to remind you all, this is not a smear campaign
against Ma Su Kyi or Ko Aung San I will never copy her bad habit as a
smear campaigner against anyone. These are the facts, these are the
history. These things happen before our very own eyes, nobody has to
tell us, nobody has to brain wash us, we know, we see, we hear. You
all can check . Many of those who are involve in this political
campaign against military rule are still living, they are alive , and
kicking. I am not talking about the history of Myanmar in centuries
ago or in millennium ago.
Such personnel attacks on someone, one has to consider that must be
more than politic. The seed of hatred in Ma Su Kyi which was nothing
to do with the politic. No politic in the world went so wild. The wars
are fought not with hatred. They were fought for other reasons. For
land and for glory.
But Ma Su Kyi also sowed this seed of hatred into the heart and minds
of some Bamars and none Myanmar ethnic people. Ma Su Kyi did not
realised that it was a bad start, very bad indeed for the future of
Myanmar or her carrier as a politician. .
It was said that while in training Ko Aung San was asked to shut the
water tap . He did not shut it properly so there was the water
dripping, The Japanese drill instructor slapped Ko Aung San for not
shutting the tap properly. How true that story was, I really don't
know.
Just like today people say a lot of things, whatever comes into their
mouth or their heads, Nobody knows how true they are.
Ko Aung S an himself was accused of committing murder while serving in
Japanese army He did not admit or deny that crime. All he explained
was he had to do what need to be done. That Ko Aung San was none other
than Ma Su Kyi's own father.
Without any reservation, without any question Burmese (Myanmars ) gave
all the respect and all the credits to Ko Aung San for his great
service to the nation. He was not alone in the liberation of Myanmar.
There were others leaders from the Tatmadaw as well as from the people
(civilian), from the ethnic national races. Where were the credits for
these ethnic national leaders?
To cover up the British idea of independent for Bamars ( Burma
Proper)only and to continue British rule on hills people of Burma as
dominion and in the British Commonwealth was translated by Anglo-phil
as Burmese ( Bamar ) domination on hill track people. Don't we know
why British wanted that way?
Every year on the 19th of July Myanmars gathered at the Ah Zarni Gone
to pay their respects to the falling heroes and honoured them. It was
a public holiday. Every building, house and offices, shops, there were
****traits of Bogyoke Aung San. Union flag were flying, long after he
and the heroes were gone. They are still hanging on the walls today.
His ****trait was on the bank notes and on the coins as well. His
statues are every town and cities and parks. How much does want for
her father. How much did Ma Su Kyi do for her father.
Ma Su Kyi said, " the armed forces had only one father . We cannot
accept a second father" referring to Gen Ne Win as second father. What
was the reason for her to say like that? Did she not know her father
and U Ne Win were comrades in arm, " Thway Thauk " The fact was from
the day Ko Aung San died . Gen Ne Win was given the responsibility to
lead the Tatmadaw. The whole country knew who was the leader of
MyanmaTatmadaw. That leader was , neither Smith Dune nor Bo Let Yar or
Bo Set Kyar or Bo Kyaw Zaw. It was Bo Ne Win. If she wants, Ma Su Kyi
can blame U Nu and other civilian politicians for making him the
leader of Tatmadaw after Ko Aung San.
To be continued,
Mogyothwar.
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