19.11.2006
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Letters to Editor
Dear Editor:
I just read Dr. Mahathir's interview with the Burma Digest. Dr. Mahathir is no stranger to Burma and in fact had played an important role of accepting Burma into ASEAN. His long and wide experiences dealt with top SLORC/SPDC leaders in the past would have given him an opportunity to gauge some of the thinking or anxieties of those junta leaders that public would not have known.
All Statesman and political leaders acknowledged that to get genuine national reconciliation in Burma, all stake holders must be part of the dialogue and negotiation process, which now lacks in Burma. And hopefully, present efforts by UN Special Envoy, Mr. Gambari, would produce some tangible and significant results in the near future.
And for the sake of many million of Burma citizens, who have been deprived of their basic needs, living under harsh social and economic conditions inside the country, and many millions of ethnics citizens who have gone thru torturous years of mistreatments under successive Burmese military regimes, to wait for another 27 years or so to obtain basic human rights and democracy while current power holders and would-be power holders trying to sort out the win-win formula with prime interests of protecting their interests and positions after any political settlement, will no longer a valid solution once the mass population cross over no-matter-what threshold overcoming fear and retribution.
Dr. Sein Myint
Dear Editor,
I just read Dr. Mahathir's interview with the Burma Digest. It is a great honour for your news journal being able to reach out to such a towering statesman of this century. I am also amused somewhat to notice the similarity of his views about the current situation in Burma with that of mine.
In the absence of a biting (i.e., effective) UN General Assembly resolution, the struggle for democracy and human rights for Burma would be a long and torturous one. I hope such a long struggle does not divide our friends for their short-term goals that may betray the greater good for all. We have to continue doing what is right, relentlessly or tirelessly.
Best wishes,
Habib Siddiqui
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