NCUB pleaded Buddhist monks

DVB ( July 6, 2003 )

It is reported that the NCUB sent a letter in concerning with the Dipeyin incident to top Buddhist monks of Burma, Naingandaw Sangha Mahanayaka and all the Buddhist monks in Burma on the 5th of July.

In the letter, the Buddhist monks and abbots are urged to ask the authorities to tell the truth about the Dipeyin incident, to cease all the continuing arrests of NLD members and to stop forcing civil servants and monks to sign the agreements and promises not to get involved in politics.

DVB's Khing Thazin reports:

Khaing Thazin : The letter states that because of the oppressions of the SPDC, the people of Burma are facing all kinds of difficulties, and the failure to keep the promises of the 1990 election by the SPDC, its human rights abuses, its efforts to leave the people of Burma in dark in concerning with their own affairs and the rampant corruption among the SPDC’s officials are making Burma lose its dignity in the international community. Moreover, the letter also points out that during the Dipeyin incident the people of Burma including the monks were brutally killed by the regime’s thugs and during the brutal and murderous assaults, the regime used fake monks to attack the NLD supporters and tried to make the monks appear like murderers with vicious intention. And the criminal actions of the SPDC are now known to the world due to eyewitness accounts. The letter urges the monks to force the main culprit of the Dipeyin incident, the SPDC regime to tell people of what really happened, to release all the NLD members including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and supporters including monks and to stop all the abusive activities of the authorities forcing monks to sign promises and agreements of non-involvement in politics and the like as if they were civil servants.