To whom it may confuse! (Correction

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Subject: Re: To whom it may confuse! (Correction)

Thank you OKKARS for your reply to suantak's posting.  It is good to
know that
somebody is ensuring that complaints are getting through to the
authorities in
Rangoon. Looks like you have a very important role to play in the
reporting of
accidents or more appropriately "incidents" to the Authorities in
Rangoon.  It is
good to know that they are keen to remedy the situation, rediculous as
it might
seem for news to travel around the world before it gets to them.
For you to state that  they cannot know what is happening around the
country
indicates  the failure of the command chain throughout the country and
that the
total authority is given to the commanders of the local divisions.
Maybe that is
why there is no rule of law and no justice for the people in the
country.  Now
that you are relaying the messages of terrible deeds in the countryside
to the
authorities I, and many others will be waiting to hear what they have to

say.

But coming back to other important things:  There are happenings in
Rangoon
itself to which there has never been any adequate responses from the
"Authorities".  The slaughter of so many students in Rangoon, not only
in 1988
but also before that.  What about the 1990 elections that were won by
the NLD
party.  What about all the obstruction, arrests, summary sentencing,
midnight
raids, torture and jailing of elected representives belonging to the NLD

and
supporters of NLD.  What was done to them and what continues to be done
to them
is so similar to what the TNI and the militias did to the East Timorese
who voted
for independence.  I wonder who taught whom.  We would like answers to
these
questions and for them to have any credibility they will have to be very

congruent.  There needs to be independent investigators to verify the
answers.

I wish I could find reassurance in your statement that there is no
policy to
repress any religion or any race.  But the reports of intimidation,
abuse and
arrests are so consistent with systematic and strategic themes that it
is hard to
believe there is no knowledge of it at the top.  I appreciate your
concession
that there are good people and bad people in every organisation.  I
agree with
you wholeheartedly.  I am, and there must be many people around who are
looking
for the good people in the SPDC so that we can sit down to negotiations
for the
future of freedom and democracy in Burma.  But, like you say,
there
are bad people in SPDC who do not want this to take place.  It is good
to get
this message from, as the saying goes, "the horse's mouth".

I am very curious and I wonder a lot about your reasons for being on
Burmanet -
"to solve the problems" and to "narrow down the misunderstandings
between the
groups."  This puts you in a very high position of authority.  The SPDC
is not
very popular at home or abroad and there is the danger that the things
you do on
Burmanet point overwhelmingly to you being used as a propaganda
instrument and an
apologist for the SPDC.  There is a credibility gap staring one in the
face and
you may have to do something about it if you are to be taken seriously.
It's not
nice for you to be treated with ridicule and contempt.

te

OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I forwarded your message to the Authorities in Yangon.
> But if they  know as soon as the accident occurs it will be
> easier for them to solve the problem.
>
> It is impossible for the Authorities in Yangon to know all the
> things what is happening in the Chin State, Karen State, Shan
> State and etc..
>
> One thing I am sure is there is no policy to repress any religion or
any race
> but in every organization there are good people as well as bad people.

> Because of the bad people there may be sufferings for certain people
> or organizations. Now we can contact each other in the internet and
> it is the best way to send your complaints through e-mail.
>
> Every complaint will be sent to the Yangon authorities and I am sure
> that they will take necessary actions against the culprits if the
> complaints are correct.
>
> The intention of my staying in the mailing list such as burmanet is
> not to quarell with you but just to solve the problems, just to narrow

> down the misunderstandings between the groups. I will not be able
> to solve all the problems but I will try my best.
>
> ok
>
> In a message dated 10/21/99 6:15:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
suantak@xxxxxx
> writes:
>
> << OKKAR: Sorry for the delay.  I was
>  listing some stories but I thought I
>  should not post all atonce. This is the
>  first part for your taste.
>  Sincerely
>  Vum Son
>  How and Why the
>    Burmese Army Murdered Four Chin
>  Christians
>
>  A Burma Army battalion Kha-lah-yah unit
>  89, commanded by Lt. Col. Thurah Sein
>  Win was stationed in Phailen, a border
>  village at the Burma-India border, in
>  the Homalin district.  In July 1993 a
>  soldier from the Army unit disappeared
>  with four rifles, leaving behind a
>  letter saying that he was leaving
>  because he was unhappy with life in the
>  Burmese Army. >>