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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:05:40 +0000
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Subject: Struggle in Myanmar{Burma}
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Asiaweek (July 5, 1996) : Struggle in Myanmar
=93Generals Choice=94 [EDITORALS; June 14]; which says SLORC must talk
with Aung San Suu Kyi ; is a voice of reason in a media debate on Burma =
that
has grown increasingly shill and devoid of new ideas. Daw Suu Kyi has rise=
n to
the status of a virtual Deity in Burma and among her ardent supporters aro=
und
the world; but am I the only one who detects a hint of arrogance and lack =
of logic
in some of her recent statements? Her purpose desire for dialogue seems t=
o have
been replaced with a wish for confrontation; a tactic that has never wor=
ked with
BURMA=92S military government.
There is no indication that investment or travel boycott will work in Burm=
a=92s
case. Repression has thrived on isolation for 34 years and no one gave a d=
amn
till the military government abolished socialism and opened the country to=
capital investment in 1989. Military government could conceivably thrive f=
or
another half century, with or without the rest of the world [with China=92=
s support
they have virtually nothing to fear ]. Will isolation lead to democracy? M=
ost
likely it will turn the clock back. In spite of all the abuses in Burma, t=
here may
be more freedom there now than at any time 1962.
(Jake Guzman)
(Berkeley, Carlifornia)
An analyst in Singapore said there is strong belief in ASEAN that one sho=
uld
not comment on internal politics of another country. Yet Senior minister L=
ee
Kuan Yew commented that only the Burmese army can effectively run the
country [On Her Own, THE NATION, June 21].
We who are born and bred in Burma are struggling for democracy and human
rights. The ethnic minorities are struggling for their birthright against=
Myanmar
chauvinism (as in changing the name of the country to Myanmar ) and not th=
e
disintegration of the Union of Burma. It is the Burmese army=92s human rig=
hts
violations that are causing the union to disintegrate.
(Kanbawza Win)
(Bangkok.)