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Subject: BURMA  INDEPENDENT DAY

January 4, 1948 marked as the most significant day for the Burmese people, 
the day British granted independence to Burmese.   From 1948  to 1962,  the
country was under the Burmese parliamentary dictatorship,  from 1962 to
1988,  under the totalitarianism and  from 1988 to 1998, under the
unhumanism.

In signing the Aung San-Atlee agreement for independence of the whole
Burma,
The Burmese leaders approached the frontier ethnic nationalities to join
the 
Union of Burma at Panglong  in Shan State.  The basis on which the
association was formed the Panglong Agreement signed on 7 February 1947.
The main terms  of the treaty were: Rights of self-determination, democracy
and human rights for all, full autonomy, non-interference in the internal
affairs of the state by the central government and financial autonomy were
the terms of incorporation.   
  
The second basis of the Union, the direct result of the Panglong Agreement
was the Union Constitution which was ratified on 24 September 1947, which
guaranteed the right of Non-Burmans to leave the Union after ten years. 
This is the rights recognized by Aung San.

But after the death of Aung San, the succeeding Burmese leaders twisted
the agreement by writing a constitution based on a unitary system
concentrating
the executive administrative power in central government in Rangoon.

50 years independence from British means nothing for  Non-Burman ethnic
nationalities but replaced by Burmese colonialism  which is worse  than the
British and Japanese fascism many times.  

On the occasion of beginning new year of 1998 and Golden Jubilee of 
Independent Burma, we the ethnic nationalities in Burma, profoundly call
upon the international communities to help restore democracy and human
rights
in Burma.

Suntan Sripanngern
General Secretary
Mon Unity league