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COPY & PASTE AGAIN (r)



I don't believe all these clashes (between Chinese and Burmese, Muslim
against  Buddhist, Chiristian against Buddhist etc.) are caused by ordinary
simple citizen of Burma.

Most of these clases are started and stirred up by special agents of DDSI
(MI).
So that the BSPP/SLORC/SPDC can make excuses and say we need a strong
military in power to control the situations. Whenever this kind of clashes
happen the regime is the first one to be blammed. Not the simple people,
not the activists.
This kind of tactic is employed by many totalitarian regime, divides and
rules!. As a Burmese we have seen many incident like this in the past
fourty years.

We can never know the truth if it happens, how it started, who is
responsible etc. unless media independent and freedom of expressions is
allowed in Burma and that is what SLORC/SPDC scared to death !!!

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> From: OKKAR66127@xxxxxxx
> To: Recipients of burmanet-l <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: COPY & PASTE AGAIN
> Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 6:03 PM
> 
> COPY & PASTE AGAIN
> 
> Last year second week of March 1997, Myanmar's second largest city
> Mandalay has been put under a curfew following violent clashes between
> Buddhists and Muslims. The Government officials said may have been
> politically motivated.  There are certain people targeting the
> students, the buddhist monks and the workers to create social unrest
> and derail Myanmar's expected entry into the Association of Southeast
> Asian Nations in last year, that ASEAN members Indonesia and Malaysia
> were primarily Muslim. 
> 
> Several  messages (NO.1, NO.2 & N0.3 etc., shown in below ) were
> posted to the soc.culture.malaysia, soc.culture.Indonesia and
> soc.culture.burma one week ahead to create misunderstandings between
> Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar  in March 1997.
> 
> " It seems that Anti-government groups  COPY the same tactics from
> last year March 1997 and PASTE it in 1998 by sending the following
> message to soc.culture.malaysia, soc.culture.Indonesia to create
> misunderstandings and problems between Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar
> again. 
> 
> I am proud to say that Capital of Myanmar (Burma) 's Yangon (Rangoon)
> is the only place we can  find Emmanuel Baptist Church and the
> Mosque, opposite of the Sule Pagoda.
> 
> Please enjoy an article "FREEDOM OF FAITH"  also. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> MR. SOBA
>
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> >Subject:      Muslims in Burma
> >From:         "W. Kesavatana-Dohrs" <dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Date:         1998/04/07
> >Message-ID:
> <Pine.A41.3.95b.980407065827.37244D-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >Newsgroups:   soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.indonesia
> 
> 
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: 06 Apr 1998 21:49:06
> >From: gawdech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Reply-To: "Conference reg.burma" <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: Recipients of burmanet-l <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Inhumane cruelty against minority Muslims
> 
> >12 members of a family shot dead in Akyab?(The News Letter,March,'98)
> >RSO.
> 
> >A Muslim family consisting of 12 members including two women and two
> >children secretly made their way to Rangoon in a small mechanised
fishing
> boat by sea 
> >ruote in early February , 1998 as no Muslim is allowed to travel to
central
> Burma. However,
> > the engine of the boat went out of order and the boat was intercepted
by a
> SPDC 
> >petrol boat. Since then the fate of the arrested persons has remained in
> mystry. 
> >Strong rumour has it that the patrol party had not only looted the
belongings
> of the 
> >Muslims but also secretly shot dead all the family members after
sexually
> assaulting the 
> >women. It may be mentioned here that the ruling SPDC has restricted the
> travel movement
> > of Muslims in Arakan and none is allowed to go to central Burma. Any
one
> found violating 
> >the movement order is liable to a penalty of Kyats 250,000  or a jail
term of
> maximum 
> >14 years. Some 14  Muslims who were caught at Taungup township of Arakan
> state 
> >while on their way to centrl Burma were also reported to have been shot
dead.
> >( News Letter January, 1998 issue).
> 
> 
> =======================================================
> 
> 
> NO - 1
> 
> >Newsgroups:
>
>soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.in

do
> n
> >esia,soc.culture.burma
> >Subject: Muslims in Burma 1997.
> 
> >From: "W. Kesavatana-Dohrs" <dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> 
> >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:53:27 -0800
> 
> >Compare this report below to the AP story of Feb. 4.  AP said that
> >pressure from Jews abroad resulted in a SLORC decision to cancel its
> >own plans to relocate a Jewish cemetary.
> 
> >It is apparent that Burmese Muslims are being abandoned by their
> >brethren abroad.  Shame.
>  
> >*****************************************************************
> 
> >Cleric says mosques and schools torched
> >10.3.97/Bangkok Post
> >Supamart kasem
> >TAK
> 
> >Burmese troops torched mosques and several Muslim religious
> >schools during their dry season offensive against rebels last
> >month, a Burmese Muslim leader said.
> 
> >All Burma Muslim Union (ABMU) vice-chairman Hajji Abdul Malik,
> >who was in Kyaikdon village opposite Tak's Umphang district when
> >it came under attack by Burmese troops on February 13, told the
> >Bangkok Post that the troops set fire to a mosque and a religious
> >school in his community.
> 
> >Several other mosques were torched elsewhere, he said.
> 
> >Hajji Malik who escaped to the mountain before slipping across
> >the border into Thailand also claimed that the Burmese troops
> >plundered valuables and destroyed crops in the field.
> 
> >He said about 4,000 Muslims in Kyaikdon, Pa Klaw Nee, Mae Ha Htee
> >Hta and Sakhantit villages were forcibly moved by Burmese
> >troops to new settlement at Patein in Kya in Seikkyi district
> >where there are virtually no basic utilities such as water.
> 
> >Hajji Malik is among some 2,000 Burmese Muslim refugees who had
> >sheltered in the forest villages of Ban Kaw Thor, Nong Nok Ped,
> >Nupho and Teechorsee along the Umphang Perngklerng Road in
> >Umphang district since mid February. They, along with about 8,000
> >other Karens, were moved to a new refugee camp at Bang Nu Pho
> >last Friday.
> 
> >ABMU secretary general Mohammad Hussein charged that the Burmese
> >military junta had discriminated against Muslims by registering
> >them in a documentation form as "Muslim" while labelling Burmese
> >Buddhists as "Burmese".
> 
> >He also alleged that some 40,000 Muslims who used to live along
> >the Moulmein who used to live along the Moulmein Kyaikmaraw
> >region in Mon state were evicted to a new settlement some seven
> >miles away.
>
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> NO - 2
> 
> >Buddhist Relief Mission
> >Supporting the Buddha Sasana Worldwide
> >266-27 Ozuku-cho, Kashihara, Nara 634, Japan
> >Tel: (07442) 2-8236 -- Fax: (07442) 4-6254
> >e-mail: brelief@xxxxxxx
> >Directors: Ken and Visakha Kawasaki
> 
> >Press Release	March 18, 1997
> 
> >Buddhist Relief Mission wishes to express its deep concern over
> >SLORC's latest suppression of protests, officially characterized as
> >riots, by Buddhist monks in Burma's second largest city, Mandalay.    
> 
> >Being well informed of the volatile situation in the country at this
> >time and being fully aware of the Mandalay Sangha's courageous
> >commitment to democracy and human rights, we are convinced, first of
> >all that SLORC's official explanation for the monks' demonstration is
> >unreliable and secondly that the military's quelling of the protest
> >poses great danger to members of the Sangha and to other pro-democracy
> >activists.
> 
> >Buddhist monks played a key  role in 1988 national pro-democracy
> >uprisings when hundreds of thousands of people dared to demonstrate
> >against the military dictatorship.  When these demonstrations were
> >brutally suppressed, thousands of unarmed citizens, including monks
> >and novices were arrested or killed outright.  In 1991, Buddhist
> >monks, especially those in Mandalay, organized a boycott to resist and
> >oppose the military junta which resulted in the imprisonment and
> >forcible disrobing of many hundreds of monks.  
> 
> >There have been signs of unrest among younger monks who want to see a
> >restoration of democracy in the country. 
> 
> >Because the Buddhist Relief Mission regards the situation in Mandalay
> >as extremely serious, we strongly urge the international community to
> >show support for the monks as they protest against the SLORC.  We also
> >urge the media to pay close attention to events in Mandalay, the
> >imposition of a curfew, troop movements, roadblocks, arrests, and
> >human rights abuses. 
> 
>
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> 
> NO - 3
> 
> >Newsgroups: soc.culture.burma
> >Subject: ABYMU UPDATE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN MANDALAY
> >From: 8888 <caroline@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 
> 
> >ABYMU UPDATE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN MANDALAY
> 
> >This information was received by telephone from Mandalay on 19 March
> >1997 at 2:10 p.m., and updates the information put out in the ABYMU
> >statement of 18 March 1997.
> 
> >1. The Slorc have begun arresting the monks involved in the
> >demonstration of Monday, 17 March 1997, and have divided them in two
> >groups, now under detention.
> >2. 15 of these detained monks have already been given summary trials
> >and sentenced to lengthy jailterms.
> >3. The other detainees are still being tried or awaiting trial within
> >the prison.
> >4. It has not yet been confirmed exactly how many monks are under
> >arrest.
> >5. Afraid of public involvement or censure, the Slorc have continued
> >to say that the issue is the result of Muslim-Buddhist conflict. It is
> >should be noted that many believe the Slorc were actually behind fro
> >the bomb explosion at Kaba Aye Cave in December 1996, which took place
> >shortly after the December student protests in Rangoon. The Slorc
> >claimed that the All Burma Students' Democratic Front and the Karen
> >National Union were responsible for the blast. The ABYMU believe the
> >Slorc may use similar tactics at this time to weaken or destroy this
> >movement by the Sangha.
> 
> 
> >Central Leading Committee
> >All Burma Young Monks' Union
> >19 March 1997
> 
>
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> FREEDOM OF FAITH
> 
> by Kyi Kyi Hla
> 
> (Excerpt from Myanmar Perspectives Vol: II 3/96)
> 
> It has been the brithright and prerogative of the Myanmar peoples to
> profess faith in any kind of religion they choose, or for that matter,
> not to embrace any religious teaching if they so wished. There has
> never been and will never be any sort of coercion or obligation in the
> matter of religious faith in our country. That is why, from time
> immemorial people of different religious faiths have lived together in
> amity throughout the long years of our history without a single case
> of religious persecution. 
> 
> Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Moslems and animists dwell together and
> respect each other's covictions. There has never been any  kind of
> religious inquisition, no pogroms, no witches burned at the stake, nor
> have there been religious wars. Myanmar kings, like
> absolute monarchs everywhere, possessed the power of life and death
> over their subjects but never was this used for religious persecution.
> Buddhism has flourished, but not at the expense of other faiths. True,
> all Myanmar leaders of yesteryear and today are patrons of Buddhism,
> but they have always been generous in their support and encouragement
> of other religious sects.
> 
> For Myanmar people, religious tolerance and respect for another's
> faith is part of the normal course of events. It is nothing unusual or
> new, but because most Mynamar people are devout Buddhists, and be they
> rich or poor, always ready to donate generously towards the
> propagation of their faith, there is a possibility that some is
> informed persons might harbour misconceptions about freedom of faith
> in our country.
> 
> The following translated excerpts from the address made by the
> Secretary l of the State Law and Order Restoration Council Lieutenant
> General Khin Nyunt at the Thirty-Second All Myanmar Kachin Baptist
> Conference and the Centennial Commemoration of the Creation of the
> Kachin Script held at Mandalay on January l, l 996 will surely dispel
> all doubts on the matter of religious freedom in Myanmar.
> 
> At the inaugural ceremony of the Conference Lientenant General
> KhinNyunt, after extending his congratulations on the auspicious
> occasion of the centenary commemoration ofthe origin ofthe Kachin
> script and on the peace and harmony that had been achieved with our
> Kachin brethren, emphasized the fact that the emergence of  the Kachin
> Baptist Council was due to the freedom of faith and the mutual love
> and respect which existed between the national races ofthe time. It
> could be traced, he said, to the permission granted by King Mindon to
> visiting American Baptist missionary Dr.Cushing to begin his work in
> Bhamo. King Mindon, in spite of being a truly devout Buddhist and
> patron of the Fifth Buddhist Synod, had wisely and magnanimously
> granted the permission requested.
> 
> Mr Roberts, another American missionary later asked King Thibaw for
> permission to open a school for Kachin nationals and in 1883 he
> established a primary school where the children were taught to read
> and write in Myanmar. He said King Thibaw was a man well-versed in
> Buddhist literature. Yet with good will he permitted missionary work
> and the teaching of the Bible to Kachin nationals. The first Kachin
> baptism and the origin ofthe Kachin script bear testimony to the fact
> that Myanmar monarchs had been liberal in their views on religion and
> had granted freedom of faith. He noted that American Baptists had been
> freely allowed to propagate their religion and that they had also
> hadthe opportunity to invent the Kachin script based on the spoken
> lauguage . Earlier in 1834, a Mr Bronson had used Roman letters to
> invent the Kachin script but success was achieved only in 1895. 
> 
> The Secretary 1 then lauded the diligence and good will of the eight
> missionaries who had worked on the Kachin script for sixty years.
> Except for Mr. Bronson the remaining seven had used the Myanmar
> alphabet for the Kachin script. It was however Dr. Ola Hanson who
> finally succeeded in devising the Kachin script which is now in use
> based on the Roman letter invention of Dr. Bronson. Dr. Ola Hanson
> compiled over 10,000 Kachin words,  of which 7,000 to 8,000 were
> everyday expressions.
> 
> The Secretary then spoke of how the Kachin language in written form
> flourished through various stages, of the publication of an 11,000
> word Kachin English dictionary in 1906, the publication of the first
> Kachin newspaper in 1914 and the books that were issued including a
> Kachin grarmmar and hymns. The peak of this development was reached
> when the Bible was translated into the Kachin language and duly
> presented to the Kachin nationals on the 50th anniversary of Kachin
> baptism in 1927
> 
> He attributed the improved relations between the different Kachin
> clans such as the Jingphaw, Lawwaw, Lacheik, Rawan, Lisu and Zaiwa to
> the emergence of the Kachin script. It also widened their sphere of
> knowledge which led to greater understanding and to religious,
> economic and social progress.
> 
> Commemoration of the centenary of the Kachin script, the Secretary
> stated, was a fitting tribute to the Union Spirit and the solidarity
> of the Kachin nationals and expressed his hope and good wishes that
> the centennial of the Kachin Baptist Council be celebrated in the same
> memorable manner in Myitkyina in 1997.
> 
> He further explained how the Kachin Baptist Council had now been
> ffiliated to the Myanmar Council of Baptists and said that it had the
> second largest membership among the 15 racial and regional
> associations, which according to the 1994 figures, has 260,000 members
> in the entire country. 
> 
> He stressed the freedom of faith enjoyed under the government of the
> State Law and Order Restoration Council and how the Ministry of
> Religious Affairs had been separated from the former Ministry of Home
> and Religious Affairs and reestablished as an independent body in
> order that the affairs of all religions in the country could be dealt
> with equitably.
> 
> He also spoke of equality before the law irrespective of religious
> faith and the impartiality in job opportunities and in the
> educational, health and social spheres. He elaborated on the support
> and encouragement given so that Christianity could thrive, such as
> publication of religious literature, newspaper, radio and television
> coverage, exchange visits for religious missions, seminars and
> establishment of relations with international Christian associations. 
> 
> The census figures of 1993 show that there are over 2.2 million
> Christians and 5, 200 churches in Myanmar. 
> 
> The Myanmar people, the Secretary 1 said, believe that religion
> benefits mankind both in secular and religious affairs and they
> therefore hold in equal regard the faithful of other religions who are
> free from suppression. The Secretary remarked that Myanmar nationals
> are familiar with Christianity which stresses loving kindness.
> 
> He also touched upon the fact that some persons who bear ill-will have
> in collaboration with foreign broadcasting stations, been circulating
> rumours to the effect that there is religious suppression and
> persecution in Myanmar. These groups are bogus religious or social
> organizations intent on inciting unscrupulous persons to disrupt peace
> and progress in Myanmar, with a complete disregard of the loving
> kindness, forbearance and forgiveness taught by Christianity. He
> reminded the genuinely faithful to beware of these unscrupulous beings
> who will use Christianity as a tool to suit their purposes and
> exhorted them to denounce such persons of ill-will.
> 
> In conclusion, Lieutenant General Khin Nyunt called upon all Kachin
> nationals to constantly consolidate national unity and strive for
> perpetual peace in the Kachin State, guided by the tenets of peace and
> good will preached by the Christian religion. He also urged them to
> co-operate in endeavours for the realization of the political, social
> and economic objectives of the Kachin State and thus achieve equal
> development as an integral part of the Union of Myanmar. 
> 
> Kyi Kyi Hla
>
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> Excerpt from Myanmar Perspectives Vol: II 3/96
>