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Subject:	Don?t Rock the Boat
>From:	Thinzar Khine <Thinzar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:21:09 +0200


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Don?t Rock the Boat
Perspectives, The NLM, Tuesday, 4 August 1998

Political stability and economic stability are intertwined.  With the
achievement of these come
social stability.

The State Peace and Development Council, like its predecessor, the State
Law and Order
Restoration Council, has been paving the way for a
discipline-flourishing democracy through
convening the National Convention for the emergence of a new State
Constitution.

While progress has been made toward that end to the extent that 141
basic principles have
been approved and subsequent tasks are to be moved ahead, impediments
have been laid by
certain quarters bent on scuttling the National Convention.

The National Convention Convening Commission has been holding regular
meetings with a
view to reconvening the Convention at a time appropriate for the
occasion.

The Government, in less than a decade, has made tremendous improvement
in national
reconsolidation, with unprecedented strides in the peace process,
helping the national brethren
who have been at odds with previous governments see the folly of their
armed struggle line
and allowing them to exchange arms for peace.

Peace brought to areas formerly dominated by armed groups has been made
possible through
a common desire for it, and through realization that mutual benefit will
be the outcome of
concerted efforts for regional development.

The vast majority of the nation?s 47 million plus population is aware
that they cannot allow
anyone to push the Union again to the verge of disintegration, nor its
destabilization due to
the fanatical whims of a handful of malcontents who will grab any and
all means to get
power, even at the cost of seeing the recurrence of the sordid events of
1988.

The Government has steered the boat out of murky waters and has set it
on an even keel.
Anyone with enough common sense will realize that internal subversives
in the pay of
neocolonialists should abandon their destructive tactics.

We do not need panic buying, rising of prices of commodities and street
violence as planned
by those with ulterior motives.

Our message is ?Don?t rock the boat?.

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