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Message from the Chairman of the



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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