12.11.2006
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NLD, 88 Generation Students and all the oppositions should give the
ULTIMATUM to the SPDC
_ by Mahar Bandula
I got a rare chance to accompany my friend Dr San Oo Aung to interview the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Dr M mentioned about the legitimate fears of the unpopular, undemocratic, autocratic governments_
“Burma is of course not a democratic country and is ruled by the Military Junta. When that happens, it is very difficult to change because the Junta will feel unsafe if they give up power, actions could be taken against them.
This has happened in the case of Bangladesh when Ershad giveup power. He was jailed.
It had happened in South Korea when Chun Doo-hwan gave in to the democratic process, he was charged and he was actually sentenced to death.
And it also happened in Indonesia when Suharto agreed to the democratic process. Action had been taken to try and punish or to jail him.
So these models do not encourage authoratian rulers from giving up their power easily. So it is going to be very difficult to change the political culture of Myanmar/Burma.”
I searched and presented here about the three leaders Dr M had mentioned.
- Bengladesh army Chief Lieutenant general Hossain Mohammad Ershad, toppled President Sattar on 24 March 1982 and proclaimed himself chief martial law administrator. He took over as president on 11 December 1983 by replacing A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury. An intensifying opposition campaign forced Ershad to step down on 6 December 1990. He was briefly arrested and kept confined.
- Chun Doo-hwan (born 18 January 1931) was a Korean military general and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. General Chun Doo-hwan launched a coup d'etat in 1980 to assume the presidency. Chun's seizure of power was greeted by widespread protests. Resigned in 1988 and transferred power to his hand-picked classmate, Roh-Tae-woo. Sentenced to death in 1996, Chun was later pardoned by President Kim Dae-jung, whom he himself had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier.
- General Suharto is a former Indonesian military and political leader. long-reigning second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998. Suharto seized power from his predecessor, the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno. Suharto was forced to resign from the presidency in May 1998. He was replaced by his deputy Jusuf Habibie. Efforts to prosecute Suharto have mostly centered around alleged mismanagement of funds, On May 29, 2000, Suharto was placed under house arrest when Indonesian authorities began to investigate the corruption during his regime. Many attempts to prosecute Suharto on charges of corruption and human rights violations.
- Unable to prosecute Suharto, because of his ill health, the state has instead pursued legal actions against his former subordinates and members of his family. Suharto's son Hutomo Mandala Putra, more widely known as Tommy Suharto, was initially sentenced to fifteen years in jail for arranging the murder of a judge who sentenced him to eighteen months for his role in a land scam in September 2000. He became the first member of the Suharto family to be found guilty and jailed for a criminal offence.
Our beloved student leader, Min KO Naing told a foreign journalist that he wanted to emphasize his hope for national reconciliation. "There were so many bitter experiences, my individual life and experience was bitterness." But he refuses to dwell on the past. "We've glimpsed the light of the Buddha's teachings," he said, referring to other former student activists. "Forgiveness and loving kindness can conquer the hatred. Our aim for all citizens of our country is to leave our individual sacrifice and individual suffering for the past." Although he offer his hands in peace avoiding revenge, he and his friends, student leaders are arrested by SPDC.
Our beloved National leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi keep on telling about loving kindness, forgiveness and emphasized many times that she would not take revenge on Myanmar Military.
We all know that, Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There are some reports of BIA soldiers’ extreme cruel actions on some of the villages. Freedom fighter AFPFL also changed, corrupted, and divided into two parties. BIA had to be replaced with BDA and later transformed into the present Burma/Myanmar Tatmadaw. But Myanmar Tatmadaw and leaders, Ne Win, Saw Maung and Than Shwe are all corrupted and transformed into biggest monsters and are still terrorizing our country.
Myanmar Tatmadaw is now hated by all the people of Myanmar. Please repent now if you wish to see the happy ending in Myanmar. Give back the power you looted from the people and NLD. Your good will could be rewarded back by NLD and people. At last, after few years, your Military men could definitely win back the power in fair and square elections as your brothers in ASEAN. Actually, people love you in their hearts but because of your strong and unfair tactics, they hate you in the brains. Metta is always reflected and flows to both side. If you could really give the tender loving kindness to all the people you would be respected and loved by all.
Ananda Thuriya’s Dhammata, poem starting with, “Thu dee tayauk kaung: bo.yauk mu_Thu ta yauk hmar, pyet link gar thar, Dama Dar Dee” which meant, “For one to win, another has to fall or lost or destroyed. That is the nature!”
The law of the nature
For one to win, another has to be destroyed.
That is the law of the nature!
Your Majesty’s life of staying on the throne in a golden palace,
surrounded by ministers, courtiers
with all the Royal riches, luxuries, possessions, wealth, prosperities
and regal paraphernalia are not permanent.
The Royal luxuries would not last forever.
It will burst like a bubble of water just come out of the wild ocean.
All the present pleasures could disappear instantly.
Nothing is permanent.
Even if Your Majesty pardoned me,
I could not escape the Kama,
which are following me in Sansara according to my past deeds.
The entire human beings are mortal and I would definitely die one day.
In the Sansara circle even if our positions are reversed,
I would not seek revenge but forgive your sins.
My mortal body is just made of flesh and blood
and death is awaiting me.
That is just the law of the nature!
But the present world is not the ancient Pagan era of the person who kills the king could become a king. This is not the Kong Baung dynasty period to massacre all the rival royalties to be able to ascend the throne. This new advanced civilized democracy era is the time for all the people to stay united and to be able to rule their country together peacefully. Nowadays we have the holistic view and no one could be excluded or unfairly denied his or her rights.
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
The answer to all of us is clear. If we wish to improve a student, our children, reform the criminals we need to use the two pronged, reward and punishment method. We all need to give SPDC an ultimatum.
We need to give a limited time e.g. 3-6 months to reply us. If they repent, release all the political leaders, political prisoners, start a meaningful dialogue with NLD, Ethnic Minorities, all the civil societies and opposition to form a coalition government based on democracy, under the UN appointed authorities we need to for give and forget all of them. We need to clearly declare that we are going to give the SPDC Generals, Myanmar Military, their relatives and friends the absolute carpet amnesty.
If not, if people have to use the power or force to topple them, there would be no amnesty at all. Not only SPDC Generals, Myanmar Tatmadaw individuals who had committed crimes, their relatives and friends would be traced and punished accordingly. We must declare that we would even hunt down up to their grand children using international private detectives, like hunting down Nazi war criminals.
They would face the fate of Italian Fascist leader, Mussolini and his mistress in 1945, getting beaten, urinated upon, spit upon, and hung upside-down like butchered animal. Or like Sadam Hussein of Iraq humiliated at the trial and sentenced to hang. Warn them that they could end up like the Romanian communist president, Nikolai Ceaucescu, who, along with his wife, was put on trial and executed on Christmas Day, 1989. Please visit Burma Digest Gallery by Yebaw Day, http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/bd/2006/6/11/yd.htm. for pictures and descriptions.
Democracy is the Government of the People for the People. In the modern civilized world we could work together for the benefits of all. Both of the two partners, or all the partners if more than two, could benefit from the combined efforts.
So if SPDC Generals are really patriotic, love Burma/Myanmar and wish the country to prosper, peaceful and progress, we must recruit the help of all the Burmese people, opposition parties, all the ethnic minority groups and different race and religious groups to work together for the common benefit and mutual progress. Although SPDC Junta has to share the power, you could avoid the total loss of power if the people really revolt against all of you. By sharing power and working together with NLD lead opposition you and all the people could aim for a Win Win solution.
Even God is using this punish/reward system to mold the humankind into a better persons. If repent and asked forgiveness, sure, God will forgive us. However, we must not commit the same offence repeatedly. However asking forgiveness at deathbed or at the late time on the day of Judgment is too late for forgiveness. For example, if we asked forgiveness after our partner in illicit sex (according to some religions) is too late. We need to correct, ask forgiveness when both of the partners are still alive. For Buddhists also we need repent and redemption before we die or too late. Or else the sins would follow his Sansara.
Therefore, it is the time to give an ULTIMATUM to the SPDC Generals to release all the political prisoners and start a meaningful dialogue to a real change to democracy and reconciliation or else to prepare for the consequences, face the music and wait the people’s punishment.
Comments:
Myo Thu said _
Yes, I like Win-Win solution.
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