"The Union Day is worthy of commemorating because it is an event which the military cannot claim to have any role whatsoever in bringing about. As such, military rulers have nothing meaningful to say on Union Day, except to utter empty clichés about "national unity" as Than Shwe recently did. It is amazing that he should talk about the rights of the "national races," when in fact, no one but members of the top brass have such things as human rights..."