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Subject: Re: These are the kind of men of which heroes are made. And we salute you all.

After the failure of the 9999 agitation some activists lost common sense and 
they can not distinguish between terrorists and heroes, I think. :-)

ok

In a message dated 10/2/99 7:23:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< "Exiled Myanmar dissidents Saturday deplored the violent tactics of
 radical student gunmen..." And so it was said by many, but not by all.
 
 Now that the helicopter has left, and the Thai minister has been
 released, and hostages are free and safe, it is truly amazing and
 unfortunate that one opposition group after another is heaping praise on
 the Thai government, on Thai officials, on the Thai negotiating process,
 and not a word of praise or recognition for the brave freedom fighters
 who once again showed the Burmese junta that they are at fault. These
 brave fighters threatened innocent hostages, and held off hundreds of
 elite paramilitary soliders, and risked their lives not so others would
 flow like rivers into a vacuum to cover up the essence of their deed,
 but to appeal to the civilized world to free political prisoners, to
 dialogue with the NLD and with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for national
 reconciliation. Lke great and free nations, they used force as a means
 of deterrence, arms to prevent warefare. Theirs was a great mission of
 peace, not war. They did not blow up the embassy, they did not
 unnecessarily take lives or use violence gratuitously. They artfully
 negotiated their way out of a most dangerous and tense combat situation,
 and they did it with in such a way that the entire civilised world of
 hundreds of millions of people, kept spellbound in suspense and hope,
 could see that they meant no real harm to the hostages unless the Thai
 negotiators forced a violent end to the conflict. 
 
 Full responsibility rather than mere praise rests on the Thai government
 to respect their committment to the displaced Burmese population that
 now fears a "whiplash" or hostility and rebuke, which is absolutely
 unjutified by the heroic and brave act of 
 defiance in the name of freedom and respect for human rights, and the
 call for a democratic form of government in Burma. 
 
 And they breathed new life into the thousands of political prisoners
 suffering in hardship behind the dreaded prison walls of Burma.
 
 EuroBurma, and Dawn Star particularly, strongly affirms the noble and
 just cause of these freedom fighters, and though their methods may seem
 unthinkable to a hypocritical, near-sighted and so-called civilised
 world that encourages the junta and gives it international forums of
 support and endorsement, no one truly dare utter with honestly that
 these brave men were unjustified in their deed. No one but complacement
 and 
 smug diplomats and their kind so unlike these fighters and men of peace.
 
 These selfless men, and not those who make great sounding public
 statements of reserved astonishment, will go down in the history of the
 freedom struggle in Burma as heroes
 of the oppressed, victims of investment policies, unrestrained global
 capitalism by corporations and their greedy shareholders, sychophant
 civil servants and other diplomats of useless rhethoic that serves not
 that cause of freedom, but rather the 
 forces of reaction that constrain it as the struggle now breaches the
 21st century. 
 
 
 These were brave and fearless men. Let it be said by he who dares to
 tell the truth that these are the kind of men of which heros are made.
 These are the men who one day will defend a free and democratic Burma. 
 
 We salute you all. 
 
 Dawn Star
 EuroBurmanet >>