Letter to SLORC

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Burmese Relief Center--Japan
DATE:February 6, 1995
TIME:10:18PM JST
SUBJ:Letter to SLORC

This is a letter some friends have sent to SLORC Embassies
around the world.  We feel it deserves an even wider audience.

To SLORC and its friends:

The only evils in this world are greed and fear, and they are
behind every thought you think and every action you take. The
recent attack on Manerplaw is only the latest addition to 33
years of crimes against humanity. In the name of "preserving
the union," you steal, you rape, you torture, you kill. You
preserve nothing but your own power and privilege; you
destroy everything that stands between you and them.

In destroying Manerplaw, you may think that you have won
some great victory. You are deluding yourselves. You have
merely betrayed your desperation and duplicity for all the
world to see.  Around the world, you are being condemned,
even by your supporters, and you have generated great
sympathy for the people you persecute. The 40 million people
of Burma are already against you. Day by day, they are being
joined by people in other countries who abhor your atrocious
behavior. You pretend to be patriots, but you owe all your
power to foreign businesses and foreign governments. In
attacking Manerplaw, you have weakened that support. Arid
when they stop supporting you, where will you be? In a word,
doomed, as all dictators ultimately are. Know this: democracy
will win in the end, for it dwells not in some roughhewn
buildings at the confluence of the Moei and Salween, but in the
hearts of Burma's people.

>From Carol Schlenker and Aung Thu

How superior
The tactics of war
How potent
The weapons!
Without gathering in
The hearts of the people,
Without relying on
The strength of the people,
The sword edge
Will shatter,
The spear
Will bend.
--Let-We Thondara