Quotable quotes competition

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The Friends of DSIF* are launching a quotable quote competition.


The quotations should be from BSPP/SLORC/SPDC sources, and be
clearly identified by date, source, and name and rank of speaker,
where appropriate. The context may also be given.

The competition will be ongoing, with the best quotes chosen by netapplause.
If enough are posted, they will be turned into a little book, published in 
Burma
magazines and/or placed on a website.

Please post your favourites -- as many as you want.


Here are a couple to kick off with:

" ....It is unfortunate that the Government in every positive move or steps 
in the
right direction has been challenged, ridiculed and impeded creating
unnecessary obstacles in her orderly transition to a multi-party democracy.
Fortunately, Myanmar is now at a point where a stable democracy is
achievable. But if the country loses the basic peace and stability it had
achieved, the groundwork for democracy may be lost...."

(Myanmar Information Committee, Yangon,
Myanmar Information Sheet No.B-1509( I ) 31st August, 2000 ,
posted by Okkar on Burma listservs)


"Martial Law is neither more nor less than the will of the general who
commands the army. In fact Martial Law means no Law at all."

(Major General Khin Nyunt, Secretary-1 of SLORC and head of Military 
Intelligence,
14 May 1991, quoted in "The Working People's Daily" of 16 May 1991)

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*The SPDC's Department of Shooting Itself in the Foot,