Forward--NCGUB: request to say noth

[panyoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Re: Forward--NCGUB: request to say nothing !

I wish U sein Win of NCGUB say nothing about this Bangkok Embassy takeover
affairs.
The students democracy movements of Burma was never been operated under
leadership of NCGUB or NCGUB was ever been visible on any students suffering
along the struggle. That's the bottom line.
Please stay at where you are and say nothing.You might harm the situation or
objectives of the event.
Let the students do what they have set out to do in their own way.There is
no need to preach your non-violent way. We all know about that and bviously
not many people in Burmese struggle agree to that

Thank you.

You leave them alone.


panyoma/syd



Douglas Steele wrote:

> NCGUB: PM CALLS FOR PEACEFUL END TO EMBASSY TAKEOVER
> ??only way to put the pin back in the grenade is through dialogue.?
>
> For Immediate Release, Oct. 1, 1999
>
> NCGUB Prime Minister Dr. Sein Win today is calling for a peaceful end to
> the standoff at the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok, saying, ?Our movement is
> committed to non-violent struggle under the leadership of Daw Aung San
> Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy.  We share the students?
> frustration, but blood must not be shed.  The NCGUB does not believe
> that violent means are the best way to achieve peaceful ends.?
>
> The students appear to have acted out of outrage at the regime?s
> increasing repression and frustration with the failure of the
> international community to respond to the plight of Burma?s people.
> The takeover at the Bangkok Embassy is the most recent in a series of
> acts responding to the escalating human rights abuses in Burma.(1)  In
> September 1999, two British citizens,  Rachel Goldwyn and James
> Mawdsley, received harsh prison sentences for staging non-violent
> protests in Rangoon.  ?We fear that there will only be more of these
> incidents until there is real dialogue in Burma,? said U Bo Hla Tint,
> the Minister for North and South American Affairs.
>
> In a speech at the Asia Society?s New York office on September 24,
> Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung said about the regime, "We are like
> people holding a hand grenade, where the safety pin is out."(2)   Dr.
> Sein Win responded, saying:
>
> The only way to put the pin back in the grenade is through dialogue.
> While the ultimate cause of the Embassy takeover is the regime?s harsh
> rule in Burma and refusal to honor the 1990 election results, the way
> out of the crisis in Burma--and at the embassy--is through dialogue, not
> violence.  We appeal, therefore, to the Thai authorities to continue
> their efforts to bring about a peaceful end to the standoff and will do
> whatever we can to help.
>
>  # # #
>
> *****************
>
> (1) See AFP: DESPERATE EXILED MYANMAR DISSIDENTS RESORT TO VIOLENCE (Oct
> 1, 1999): ?As the world rushes to intervene to stop atrocities in places
> like Kosovo and East Timor, there is a growing feeling among Myanmar?s
> various opposition groups that their battle for justice and self rule
> has been forgotten by the international community.  Now it seems some
> have decided to take matters into their own hands.?
>
> (2) THE BANGKOK POST: JUNTA'S MINISTER SAYS MILITARY WANTS TO SURRENDER
> POWER (Sept 28, 1999)
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