Date: September 17, 2003

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the bloody military coup in Burma when tens of thousands of people such as workers, religious leaders and students including the forth graders were shot dead by the military. The military regime also has full responsibility for the continuous killings and arrests of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD members and the supporters on May 30’s MASSACRE. Still, many of the student activists and dissidents, who fled to the border areas after the military coup and continued their struggles to restore freedom and democracy in Burma, are enduring in exiles with their great expectations to return home and to reunite their families, relations and their love ones.

Unfortunately, the patterns of the regime's systematic balks, which have totally shut down the democratic transition in Burma, show no sign of the continuation of "GENUINE TALK" between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and itself. Consequently, it’s premeditated attempt to assassinate Daw Suu on May 30’s MASSACRE and the recent regime shuffle that has promoted Gen. Soe Win, the commander of the MASSACRE as Secretary One of SPDC government totally deprived our desire to free Burma. Fifteen years later under the military dictatorship rule, no progress
toward democratization in Burma has been made. The majority of the opposition leaders are still in the jails. The regime’s violations of human rights are worsening ever. The economic crisis with its hyperinflation, which is more deteriorated then under the Japanese rule during the World War II, has affected the people in Burma to bear poverty and famines at maximum. The worst of all, the life of our beloved leader Daw Suu and other prominent leaders are in the hand of the most brutal and lawless regime all over the world without any help.

In conclusions, if the regime is still willing to cooperate the democratization of Burma and to avoid the imminent eruption of mass retaliations against its dictatorial rule along with the international pressures with their toughest measures, the regime must fulfill the following demands such as;

1. an immediate and unconditional release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all the political prisoners,

2. to bring the responsible persons and organization that have committed May 30’s Massacre,

3. to transfer the power to the winners’ party National League for Democracy led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,

We urge all the student dissidents and oppositions all over the world to set up an aggressive campaign calling on the UN and its Security Council to intervene Burma’s crisis immediately and effectively.

Democratic Burmese Students Organization (USA)