NCGUB statement on the 54th anniver (r)

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Subject: NCGUB Statement on the 54th anniversary of Resistance Day (in  English)

Statement on the  54th  Anniversary of Resistance Day


The 27th of March, the 1945, the day on which the Burma Patriotic Forces
led by Gen. Aung san, with the support of the Allies and together with the
entire people of Burma, commenced resistance against the Japanese
occupation forces practicing the evil fascist system, is historically the
Fascist Resistance Day.

(1) With the help and training given by the Japanese, Gen. Aung San, the
founder of the Burma Independence Army, and the Thirty Comrades had learned
the art of war. The struggle of the entire people of Burma, led by the
Burma Independence Army, for independence was successful because of the
assistance of the Japanese. 

(2) However, when the Japanese imposed the fascist rule, which was worse
then the rule of colonialism, on the entire people of Burma, the Burma
Patriotic Forces led by Gen. Aung San acquired the assistance of the Allies
and, together with the people of Burma, launched resistance against the
fascist Japanese forces. The entire people of Burma had come to extremely
detest the fascist system. As a result, the entire people participated in
the resistance against the Japanese occupation forces, and fascism
disappeared from the land of Burma by the end of 1945.

(3) Though the alien fascists could be expelled, the "domestic fascists"
clique of the army, changing their title from time to time, are ruling
Burma again with militarism, ever since Gen. Ne Win seized the state power
from the civilian government in 1962.

(4) The SLORC/SPDC military clique has been misusing patriotism, practicing
the system of monopoly over the country's finance, economy and politics,
using the so-called Union Solidarity and Development association in like
manner as Hitler had used his Brown Shirts. It has created special military
intelligence organizations, like Hitler's Gestapo secret police
organization, to control the whole society, including the armed forces,
with fear.

(5) The armed forces of today have to blatantly oppose the people in
accordance with the wishes of the SPDC fascist militarist clique which has
to rule the country with coercion and oppression in order to perpetuate its
power. They have been relegated to the role of being the SPDC's tool of
oppression, or mercenary forces, and are being detested and feared by the

people. Sadly, we are seeing the armed forces that have become totally a
contradiction of the guide-line of their founder, Gen. Aung San, who said,"
The armed forces have been founded not for an individual but for the whole
country-for the entire nation. They have been founded not for an
organization, a party nor a group but for the whole county, for the entire
nation. Our armed forces are not for tyrannizing the people, not for
flaunting their power in reliance of weapon. The armed forces are the
servants of the country and not the other way round."

(6) The domestically made fascist military dictators of today shamelessly
changed the name of the Anti-Fascist Resistance Day, which has its
inception in the Burmese armed forces led by Gen. Aung San and the historic
victory of the people of various ethnic nationalities of Burma over the
fascist dictators, to Armed Forces Day, disregarding the role of the people.

(7) So long as the evil fascist military dictatorship is in Burma, we will
never be able  to successfully establish a federal union guaranteeing full
democratic and human rights. Like in the past, for the termination of the
fascist military dictatorship, it is time for patriotic and self-respecting
members of the armed forces to free themselves from the role of being the
tools of the SPDC and work together with the people for freedom and the
democratic cause.

(8) In conclusion, on this occasion of the  54th Anniversary of
Anti-Fascist Resistance Day, we would like to earnestly urge the members of
the armed forces, with a sense of compassion and love for justice, and the
entire people to support and cooperate with the Committee Representing the
People's Parliament, for the emergence of the People's Parliament, which is
the urgent need of the present day.


March 27, 1999.