The Role of UN (r)

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Read Khin Maung Oo's comments again, and you will see that pushing the UN to act is a strategy, not a statement of fact.

We must encourage the UN to rise to its duty and its glory.  Its past failures to do so do not mean that it cannot and will not improve in the future. 

I dont care that Burmese work there.  I imagine that the Indonesian clerks and typists at the UN are also related to the Suharto regime,. but they dont seem to be able to shut down the East Timor operation.

You will see a lot of these "SPDC" Burmese start to forget that they ever had any friends in the junta, once the dictatorship begins to crumble.  How much loyalty will the SPDC command without their loaded guns? 

We certainly have more of a chance to influence the behavior of UN than we do the SPDC, who seem to require physical beatings before they will listen.  (See "S.H.A.N.: Angry 'Khin Nyunt' Ordered Sealing of Border", S. Wansai, today's mail)

It is correct, useful, and noble to work with the UN on this.  Or did you have some other strategy in mind?

By the way, about duplicate e-mails on your computer: everyone gets them.  Why dont you filter them out if it bothers you to delete them?

At 07:17 AM 10/3/99 -0700, Soe Than wrote:
>You are acting as if UN has answers for everything.
>
>They could not solve the problem in Cambodia where millions of them were massacred.
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>Likewise in Rwanda where Hutu genocide almost a million of Tutsis.
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>By the way, it is not secret that many Burmese working at the UN in Geneva or New York are either relatives of the Military Junta or friends of them.
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>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Khin Maung Oo <khinmgoo@xxxxxxxx>
>To: burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: The Role of UN
>Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 00:30:09 -0700
>
>Criminal act in National level is accepted as legal when succeeded - like
>military government in Burma.
>Now is the time for everybody to think of correcting such kind of
>injustice.
>Nobody has the right to destroy the future of our peoples.
>The role of the UN to be raised to handle this kind of injustice for the
>peoples of the country. To prevent the most powerful insurgent to become
>the legal government.
>
>Khin Maung Oo.
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