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Message from the Chairman of the
- Subject: Message from the Chairman of the
- From: mg_myanmar@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 07:35:00
Subject: Message from the Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe
SOURCE : The New Light of Myanmar (Thursday, December 2, 1999)
Message from the Chairman of the State Peace
and Development Council Senior General Than
Shwe on the 79th Anniversary of National Day
The following is a translation of the message from
Chairman of the State Peace and Development
Council Senior General Than Shwe on the 79th
Anniversary of National Day:
To all the national people,
Today is the 79th Anniversary National Day, the
day on which a milestone of national movement was
erected in the history of the struggle for
Myanmar's Independence. After Myanmar became a
British colony, youths with modern education
motivated to strive for race, religion and Sasana
founded Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA) in
1906 and carried out nationalist activities. When
it gained strong membership, it developed into
General Council of Burmese Associations (GCBA) and
stepped up nationalist activities as a front of
national unity. At that time the British
colonialists enacted Rangoon University Act meant
for the limited few who would contribute towards
the colonial administrative system, thereby
restricting the rights of the majority of national
youths to pursue higher education.
Patriotic youths with strong nationalistic and
patriotic spirit launched protests against Rangoon
University Act and demanded a better university
education system. With the help of GCBA, the
movement grew and gained success, and awakened and
raised the nationalist spirit of the entire
national people. Later, Dobama Asiayone stepped
up nationalist activities and progressed to the
stage of waging the struggle for national
independence. As the nationalist movement was the
one that sounded a clarion call for the
anti-colonialist national Independence struggle of
Myanmar national people, this day is marked as the
National Day and commemorated every year.
Myanmars are people who safeguarded lineage and
ancestry, upholding, maintaining and uplifting
patriotism throughout successive periods of
history. Myanmar people have great traditions and
high cultural standards and they have always
fought back without taking it with bowed heads
whenever there was aggression perpetrated by alien
nations many times in various periods of history.
Because of lawless aggression and occupation by
the British, Myanmar Naing-Ngan lost her
sovereignty but Myanmar people regained
independence by means of their nationalist might
of dynamic love for their own country and
nationality.
After regaining of Independence, the nation was
formed with States and Divisions and nationalist
spirit was to be fostered along with the Union
spirit. However, due to divide-and-rule policy of
colonialists, national solidarity had been weak
during the past 40 years. Union spinet is the
spirit of oneness and unity of the entire people
irrespective of area of inhabitation in the
country under the same flag of administration. It
is the spirit based on patriotism, being of one
mind, loving, cherishing, valuing one's own
community and the sum total of communities, namely
the motherland, one's nation, with the will to
safeguard it and strive for its development. In
other words, Union spirit is united patriotism,
the will to live closely together in amity through
thick and thin, weal or woe among the national
races residing on the same land, drinking the same
water, for aeons of time, having been born of the
same ancestry.
Upholding Our Three Main National Causes, namely,
non-disintegration of the Union,
non-disintegration of national solidarity and
perpetuation of sovereignty as the nationalist
policy, the State Peace and Development Council is
endeavouring hand in hand with the people,
building a peaceful, pleasant, modern, developed
discipline-flourishing democracy nation in accord
with the State's political, economic and social
objective. It will be seen that due to combined
endeavours of the government and the national
people, national re-consolidation has become
firmer and national growth has gained high
momentum.
On the other hand, neo-colonialists and their
subservient negativist internal axe-handles,
wearing the cloaks of human human and democracy,
are violating all kinds of laws, moving to incite
anarchy and interfering in internal affairs of the
nation, and are even perpetrating terrorist acts
transgressing the sovereignty of the State. The
national people who cannot permit anything
detrimental to stability, peace, tranquillity and
development of the country must with full
patriotic and Union spirit oppose, condemn and
crush destructive acts of neocolonialists and
internal axe-handles subservient to external
elements.
I hereby make an emphatic call on all to strive
with full nationalist fervour and vigour for
emergence of a new peaceful, pleasant, modern,
developed nation, that is the nationalist goal of
the State and the national people, accepting as
noble national duties the objectives of the 79th
Anniversary National Day, namely
(1) to strengthen nationalist patriotic spirit,
(2) to safeguard lineage and ancestry, (3) to
strengthen national solidarity, and (4) to
perpetuate independence and sovereignty in honour
of the historic National Day, the day on which a
milestone was erected prominently on the pages of
the history of anti-colonialist struggle of the
nation.
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Mg Myanmar
A Myanmar citizen who loves Myanmar
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