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The article below, from the mouthpiece of the Burmese regime, seems to indicate that growing dissatisfaction within the armed forces is troubling the ruling clique of generals.
News and opinion which bypasses the censor is a key to the growing awareness of all, including military personnel. Upon the latter the regime must rely, if it is to remain in power.
In an ever more communicative world, the junta has a worsening problem of control.
Its control will falter all the sooner when those seeking the regime's removal make a firm commitment to radical changes that directly address — by practical measures — the people's felt needs. Not those of foreign governments and bankers.
Change will come from Burma's people, including soldiers.
I am one of the ordinary people. I am complacent about my lifestyle: leading a peaceful life with my private business. I read, listen to the radio, and watch TV regularly on account of my habit of learning internal and international affairs. So, I somewhat keep in touch with what is going on at home, and in the world.
I have noticed that these days, BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB are stepping up their broadcasts designed to break up the Tatmadaw. Besides, they have begun to drive a wedge among the members of the Myanmar Police Force. The nearer the 2010 election is drawing, the more the internal axe-handles in complicity with certain foreign radio stations air a wide variety of fabricated stories with the intention of disrupting the 2010 election, peace, stability and national development. I believe that has posed a grave danger to the nation and the people. Therefore, I feel I have come under a responsibility to write this article in order that such groundless news stories will come to the light of the people.
In the meantime, they are found desperate to unsettle the talks to transform the peace groups into border guard forces for lasting peace, by airing complete fabrications. In like manner, they are airing news stories on political prisoners, human rights, freedom of press, and affairs of anti-government political parties very regularly and repeatedly. The theme of their broadcasts remains unchanged: the government is bad; the nation and the people are living below the poverty line; and the government is oppressing a certain political party.
Here, I notice that there is no element of truth in their broadcasts about the government. Apparently, why they are doing so is nothing more than deceiving the people into misunderstanding the government, discouraging the people, and creating public panic. With great relish, they are entertaining and adding exaggerations to the stories provided by internal axe-handles in spite of their knowledge that the stories are baseless. In my opinion, they are pursuing a long-term plot to neo-colonize our country.
To be honest, those story-teller radio stations are not happy with the people leading a peaceful life with a prosperous future. They are anxious to make the people stay in a state of panic under doubts; create public outrage, stemming from crises; to weaken and eliminate the Tatmadaw which, in collaboration with the people, guards the motherland against dangers; to see the people taking to the streets under the leadership of some people who rely on external elements, and even the nation facing an 88 unrest-like incident. So, the people are to notice the fact that behind their broadcasts are clever schemes to achieve their goals and serve their own interests.
Now, internal axe-handles and certain foreign radio stations are trying to hinder the 2010 election. It has become clear that they are speeding up their efforts to disrupt the important turning point of the nation and the people. Only if they can disrupt the election will it be possible for them to keep their hopes alive. So, they seem determined to make the election unsuccessful. The people can visualize easily the point that the closer the election is to its course the greater attempts they will make.
If my memory serves me correct such storytelling radio stations as BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB have never ever aired authentic news stories. To be frank, they have hardly stood the side of the truth since 1988. The true stories they have aired in the period are not associated with Myanmar affairs, such as news stories about other countries, and Champions League football. The news stories on Myanmar affairs they have aired up to now are all false. The people are well convinced of that point.
In general, news is a true, interesting story. Purported and made-up news stories are black ones. I have learnt that black journalism is "reporting fabricated news to mislead the people", and disinformation is "reporting made-up stories, instead of true stories". According to my review, the 1988 unrest was completely due to story-telling radio stations such as BBC and VOA with black journalism and misinformation in airing their news stories about Myanmar.
Among the foreign correspondents, BBC's Christopher Gunness could rock our country most. BBC and he used black journalism and misinformation methods to the best of their ability to ravage the country. I believe there are so many profound evidences that support that point, and it has come to the knowledge of the majority of the people.
In fact, the 88 unrest was merely a political game well organized by BBC and Christopher Gunness. Many people placed too much reliance on, and danced to the broadcasts of BBC and Christopher Gunness, and in the end the unrest grew into the 88 unrest. Thus, I would say that BBC and Christopher Gunness killed a great number of innocent civilians and destroyed a great deal of public property, without using any weapons.
While the unrest was gathering momentum, Christopher Gunness conducted a made-up interview to fuel the riots of mobs. The broadcasts about the interview are featured in detail in the book "Skyful of lies of BBC, VOA, AIR Broadcasts, and Rebuttals Against Them". The truth is that on 28 July 1988, BBC correspondent Christopher Gunness conspired an interview in collusion with Nay Min, Htay Aung, Htay Kywe, and Ko Ko Latt who claimed themselves as 88 generation students. They deceived and took student Ma Aye Nyein Thu of Kamayut Township, who at that time was serving as a voluntary Red Cross member at Yangon General Hospital, to Sangyoung and introduced her to Christopher Gunness. Then, they pressured her to play a role in the question and answer programme as they had already planned.
So, she had to comply with their wish, saying in the interview that she was a student, and was put behind bars in Insein Jail; and that there other female students and her were raped by jail warders. The well-planned interview was aired on the evening of 6 August 1988 by BBC. The interview was so effective that the mobs out of control, thus culminating in the 8-8-88 unrest, which absolutely tarnished the image of the nation. It is, therefore, fair to say that the 1988 mass protest was completely due to the fabrications manufactured by internal axe-handles and certain foreign radio stations to disgrace Myanmar, and bring about untold miseries to the nation and the people.
Nevertheless, the whole truth was discovered some time thereafter. After the unrest, Aye Nyein Thu admitted with repentence that she just did as asked by Christopher Gunness, Htay Kywe and Ko Ko Latt; that she was neither jailed nor raped; and that she made a silly mistake under the persuasion and pressure of the group of the axe-handles.
Attempt to break up the Tatmadaw has been going on on a large scale since the 1988 unrest. It seems to me that the axe-handles and those foreign radio stations are fully committed to their scheme of breaking up the Tatmadaw with whatever ways and means they have sought, because they are well convinced of the fact that they will be in no position to exploit the nation and the people so long as the armed forces remain cohesive and strong. That is why they stick to their plot of breaking up the Tatmadaw. It has been over a couple of decades or since 1988. In the end, the good shall triumph over the evil. The people of us notice that none of their attempts has come to fruition, whereas the Tatmadaw is getting more and more united and strong and strengthened.
As far as I remember, broadcasts on announcements intended to break up the Tatmadaw were aired repeatedly on 12 September 1988. Fake announcements with fake signatures were rampant around the nation. They said that an interim government had to be formed by 1 pm on 13 September 1988, or the Air Force would launch air strikes, and the Navy had set its targets at many certain places; and that the Tatmadaw had collapsed into pieces. Actually, such announcements are very destructive, and that reflects their selfishness. Under the negative impact of the announcements, the majority of Yangon dwellers came to be in a state of panic, and they placed some Tatmadaw members in a dilemma, thus accounting for to how much extent their plot was effective.
Today, whether those announcements are true or not has been clear to all. However, at that time, many people withstood all the stresses and strains caused by the announcements. So, an evening TV news on rebuttal was announced by Myanma Radio and Television that the announcements were fake ones in order to allay anxiety of the people. In addition, copies of letters were dropped from Tatmadaw aircraft in order that the people and Tatmadaw members would come to know the truth. Yet, some artless Tatmadaw members fell into the snare of the announcements, and took the wrong path after turning their back to the Tatmadaw. That was a costly lesson. The number of such soldiers was very small. The whole Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air Force) showed its consolidated unity and managed to save the nation that was at that time standing on the edge of the abyss.
Since 1988, such story-telling foreign radio stations as BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB have manufactured fabrications one after another with the intention of causing wholesale death and destruction to the nation and the people. They cling on to their subversive plots, airing distorted news, news based on rumours, and invented news stories day in, day out. In fact, Western neo-colonialists heavily aid and abet those radio stations and give directions to absconders, perpetrators and axe-handles from their targeted countries to harm their mother countries concerned, calling them as democracy activists. The cohorts and axe-handles under the influence of the neo-colonists are too naïve to notice that their acts harm none except them and their country. Therefore, they and such foreign radio stations work hand in glove.
The internal West-looking groups provide the West Bloc radio stations with exaggerated news stories in abundance based on personal dissatisfactions, grudges associated with political issues, and impossible hopes for their party to come to power. Those radio stations fail to honour the code of press ethic by exaggerating the provided news stories to contribute towards their neocolonialism at the expense of the interests of any other country. The Western radio stations can constantly give the people a real earful about fabricated news stories as they keep in touch with the West-looking axe-handles. They air groundless broadcasts at will, taking full advantage of the tool of the media, and showing total disregard for the code of press ethic. Personally, they are like a fool with a gun.
As to their objectives and acts, Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan in a press conference said that today the government has to seek the most appropriate ways and means in line with the objective conditions in the interest of the nation and the people; and that but, pessimists at home and from abroad, those encouraging subversive acts, and some foreign media groups that are behind their plots are constantly entertaining rumours, and airing distorted news, and news stories designed to drive a wedge among the people, news stories to persuade the people to take to the streets, and misinformed stories with the intention of undermining the State stability and peace, national unity, creating public panic, misleading the people, and stirring up mass protests. What he said is totally right, and reflects the nature of the West radio stations.
The made-up stories they have aired since 1988 are uncountable. A news story they aired is still fresh in my mind that they exploited the situations and invented Tadani (red bridge) affairs, regarding the event in which security forces prevented student protesters at Tadabyu (White Bridge) on the embankment of Inya Lake on 16 March 1988. In reality, none of the students fell in the event, but they aired as if many of them were killed, describing the protest as Tadani Affairs. Similarly, after the Tatmadaw had assumed State responsibilities, some persons in the country and certain foreign radio stations masterminded a plot to force student protesters to go underground, which is still in the mind of the people. Surely, the painful memories are always with the students who faced untold miseries there and their parents in their life.
Those foreign radio stations are, indeed, media enterprises doing media services. So, they have to follow the code of press ethic strictly. Instead, they have violated the code of press ethic so many times that they are merely black media. Therefore, they are brazen enough to air such harmful, groundless news stories.
In my opinion, they should not manufacture a fabrication about a person. In spite of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in good health, BBC and VOA in their broadcasts have said on purpose so many times that she is not in good health; that they are deeply concerned over her health, and she does not have access to good health care. Accordingly, the government has to occasionally issue news in order to get rid of the people's concerns and doubts.
Again on 23 August 2005, BBC aired an evening news story, which posed grave danger to the nation, which was related to the Head of the State and the nation. To make things worse, they added some comments to the news. At that time, the Head of State was doing his duty in good health. Although they knew that well, they aired unreliable, baseless news story deliberately.
[Translation: MS]