Tokyo Burmese Embassy's Fabrication

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Subject: Tokyo Burmese Embassy's Fabrications about the May 25th Concert

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Tokyo Burmese Embassy's Fabrications about the May 25th Concert Incident
NOTE: The 2 activists mentioned. after leaving the hospital went to
court to sue those audience members for the attacks.


http://www.twics.com/~met/mofa/embtokyo/events/jmtc990525.htm

Goodwill Cultural Concert hampered by Dissidents 

                  25-May-99 

                  It is deeply regrettable that the precious Myanmar
                  Cultural Show which has made great inroads to Impress
                  the Japanese audience was abruptly ended on 23rd
                  May 1999 before its final performance was made, due to
                  the evil premeditated scheme of the destructive
                  elements. Bent on disrupting the concert by every
                  means to politicize their narrow-minded short term
gain,
                  the most successful performance regrettably fell
victim to
                  their conspiracy. However, the Concert has been a
great
                  success for being able to reveal the richness of
                  Myanmar Cultural Heritage which has been maintained
                  from generation to generation. 

                  The destructive elements, meticulously following the
                  plan of their pseudo-democracy masters who have no
                  regard for Culture nor civilization. A group of
Myanmar
                  dissidents, lackeys of their pseudo-democracy masters,
                  were admitted to see the show after giving promises to
                  behave peacefully in the audience in the Concert
                  suddenly howled slogans to distract the spectators.
                  Towards the completion of the first show of the second
                  day, they started shouting obscene before the
departure
                  of the audience. 

                  Organizers of the concert repeatedly persuaded them
                  gently not to disturb the public order, but to no
avail. The
                  shouting became only louder. While attempting to
                  subdue them, a scuffle ensued and two Concert-loving
                  volunteers were slightly injured as they tried to
dislodge
                  them from the theater. It was learnt later that two of
the

                  dissidents also were reportedly beaten up by the
                  onlookers sitting by the door, seemingly could not
bear
                  the insults being made by the dissidents. Soon after
they
                  got out of the theater, they started to shout again
"Aung
                  Bee, Aung Bee" meaning "We did it, we have won,
                  our plan has been successful". 

                  It is evident that the whole thing was a setup, a
                  premeditated scheme hedged by their masters who were
                  possibly among the demonstrators across the street. To
                  the astonishment and also learnt that the wife of the
                  dissident, who was injured, was recording with her
video
                  camera, smiling all a long, during her be-loved
husband
                  was scuffling. Later this lady spreaded rumours that
the
                  Embassy staff forcibly confiscated her video cassette. 

                  Circumstantial evidence of collaboration between the
                  police and the demonstrators, tagged along by a lawyer
                  abound, which will come to the fore in no time, as
truth
                  shall eventually prevail. To mention a few cases in
                  example, the demonstrators threaten the local staff of
                  the Embassy who volunteered to assist the Concert on
                  their way out of the theater, and verbal threats were
                  made to the Embassy's Japanese local staff who passed
                  through the demonstrators on her way to shopping. It
is
                  astounding to see that the Kanda police could simply
                  ignore such breach of public order. The local staff
victim
                  is still frightened. 

                  The artists and the Concert Loving Volunteers, staffs
of
                  Myanmar Embassy, including Ambassador H.E. U Khin
                  Maung Thein were confined inside the theater for a
                  certain period of time, while solving the problems
incited
                  by the destructive elements as the police
procrastinated
                  the investigation procedures. The Ambassador was the
                  last person to leave the scene after seeing to it that
                  every single volunteer and all his staff and families
leave
                  the scene unscathed. 

                  The next day, 24th May 1999, a group of knife-wielding
                  dissidents, surely without proper permission, abruptly
                  sneaked before the Embassy, shouting obscene threats
                  before they were driven out by the Shinagawa Police. 

                  The Embassy will lodge a strong protest to the lawless
                  parties concerned who are responsible for the
incident.