Reactions on the attacks on Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi by the SPDC
DVB ( July 07,2003 )
U Bo Hla Tint, the MP of No.2, Mogok Constituency and a minister
of the exiled-NCGUB gave his reactions on the one-sided media
attacks on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by the SPDC as follows:
U Bo Hla Tint : We have to say that these are the real attitudes
of the SPDC. The SPDC used its lackeys, the USDA members at
the Dipeyin incident and they plotted to assassinate the NLD
leaders including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with vicious intention.
The international community knows about it now and when it
starts to take action, we have to say that the current actions
of the SPDC are desperate. They [the generals] are showing
their true colours and that they do not want to walk on the
national reconciliation path and accept the offer of the NLD
for national reconciliation and finding solutions by means
of dialogue. You could say that they have turned their back
on the desires of the people of Burma and the international
community. But we will not be able to foretell the attitudes
of the NLD and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as long as they are not
allowed to express their feelings freely.
DVB : …The NLD spokesman U Lwin and the top leaders
are being detained and we are unable to ask them their opinions.
What are the opinions of the people who are outside like you?
U Bo Hla Tint : As we are the representatives of the people,
we have always been choosing the path of dialogue and national
reconciliation. The people who have been refusing it and gone
against it and refusing to co-operate are the SPDC. When trying
to find solutions to the problems Burma, the path of national
reconciliation and the dialogue is the best. We did what we
did because of believe that it would be the best for re-harmonising
Burma. But now that the SPDC has walked off the path and they
will be inevitably punished by the international community
and the people of Burma.
The former editor of Thint-Bawa [Your Life] Magazine, Dr.
Tin Maung Than, a political critic assessed the current situation
and the likely scenarios as follows:
Dr. Tin Maung Than : I don’t think that apart from
bringing the photograph, I don’t think they have brought
anything new. The pwe [festival] is over. It’s over.
I think it was already over. The people from this side has
been waiting for the result. From the look of it, I think
that they will hatch a plot soon to handover power from their
left hand to the right like General Ne Win did. The obstacles
on their way are Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD and so they
are trying to destroy the NLD. If things become like that
we should be thinking how we should be react to the current
Burmese politics. What should we do? What should the people
do? What will the political parties do? I think it is quite
clear. As Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, if each one doesn’t
rise up and do it for oneself, we will never get democracy
for free. In my opinion, the SPDC are at the last stage to
declare the NLD as an illegal organisation. The international
community is criticising the SPDC so that the situation doesn’t
become worse than that, I think. The Japanese government talked
about this matter. They seem to think that they have steps
to do it. The best political approach is to recognise the
CRPP as the government.
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