NCGUB Statement

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STATEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE 52TH ANNIVERSARY OF RESISTANCE DAY


This is the 52th aniversery when the peoples of  Burma resisted the fascist Japanese  who 
brutally ruled Burma.

Today is the day  when the whole Burmese peoples unitedly resisted and repulsed the 
Japanese fascists who were many times stronger --- a day which had originally been 
designated as Resistance Day. However, towards the middle of the Fifties, the facist Burmese 
military, with a view to nurturing militrism,  started referring the day also as Armed  Forces 
Day. Following Ne Win?s military coup in 1962 Resistance Day was all together dropped and 
the name Armed Forces Day alone way shamelessly used .

If the Burmese generals wanted a separate day, December 26, 1941 -- the day the Burma 
Army was formed -- should be designated as the Armed Forces Day. The fact that  27th  
March is designated as Armed Forces Day is meant to dim the people's role in their  struggle 
against the Japanese fascists and to exaggerate and glorify the role of the Ne Win's private  
merceary  army . In other words, the Ne Win's Army had shamelessly robbed the Burmese  
peoples of the honor of the revolution and the revolution itself.

Through sheer lies and fabrication the Ne Win Army  has been   projecting to the Burmese 
peoples and to the world as a whole  that it has selflessly and unflaggingly working and 
sacrificing  their lives for the good and freedom of the people. Currently, the fascist military  is 
convening their  so-called national convention  in which it openly  asserted itself as the only 
force that can take the rein of the government  and manage  the future politics of Burma. This 
claim explicitly implies that all the executive, judicial and legislative powers will be vested in 
the armed forces. This contradicts the democratic principle which allows power to derive from 
the people. It also demonstrates to the world  that the Ne Win  military has substituted  this 
democratic principle with their belief that political power comes out of the  muzzles of  guns.

The SLORC military clique, in  implementing  its chauvinistic design  is brazenly engaging in 
a war of extermination against the ethnic nationalities . It is monopolising the national treasury. 
It is using the army and the intellegance   apparatus  to keep the country under its control. 
SLORC, in fact, is utilising  all fascist means to suppress and rule the country.

For  the possible riddance of the  fascist SLORC  military  who are running  the country 
without any rule of law, we the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma  urge 
the peoples of Burma to unitedly band together and wage a second war of resistance until 
SLORC's military fascism is completely removed from the Burmese soil.
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National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma