Date: October 18, 2003

The Battle of Political Defiance No.77 - "Anti-Dictatorship Peoples' Freedom Movement" will continue. A ceremony for the birthday of Ko Min Ko Naing will be held. There, we will be a salute and prey for the health and freedom of our student leader Min Ko Naing on his birthday. Many student leaders, who took active part in 8888, will reflect their memories.

The activists, human rights organizations, amnesty international and the dissidents around the globe have been calling for the release of him for fifteen years. We have begun our campaign as “Free Min Ko Naing and all political prisoners” for forty two weeks. Then, we decided to move up an aggressive campaign “Anti-Dictatorship Peoples’ Freedom Movement instead by learning from Burma’s history.

In the past, Young Men Buddhist Association (YMBA) gave young people in Burma a new hope that Burma could gain independent if they struggle. The student leaders, who became THA KHINS-masters in Burmese, had joined so many different factions with an aim to keep up their struggles. Finally, they came to realize that from student activists to politicians, non-violents to arm struggles, peasants to intellectuals and communists to Buddhist monks must join hands together shaping up a solidarity force to fight against the brutal fascism in Burma. Thus, the Anti-Fascist Peoples’ Freedom League (AFPFL) was born. The rest was everyone knew.

In the same scenario, the student led demonstrations in 1988 gave us a new hope to “free our people” from the dictatorship rule in Burma. In fact, U Ne Win and his one party rule was toppled by the power of the people led by the student activists. After the outrageous suppressions by the brutal regime killing tens of the thousands of non-violent activists on September 18, 1988, student activists had joined with many different factions including with the ethnic minorities, who were struggling for their self-determination for more than four decades. As times
passed by, Learning from AFPFL’s successful leadership and movement, the activists, dissidents and the oppositions from various factions overwhelmingly supported the need to form a movement called “Anti-Dictatorship Peoples’ Freedom Movement (ADPFM)” at the Fort Wane Conference with an aim to unify the movement inside Burma and overseas as one. The endorsement of ADPFM was implemented there, and we will follow up the endorsement with effective actions.

“DOWN WITH THE ROAD-MAP which means the direction to grave in Burmese.”

Date October 19, 2003 (Sunday)

Venue The office of SPDC’s Military Attaché
Washington DC

Time 11:30 AM

"We will never celebrate until and unless our people are free and enjoy
democracy and human rights like other free nations on earth”.

ANTI-DICTATORSHIP PEOPLES’ MOVEMENT

Contact: Ko Shwe Sin 301-523-9292