ဆရာေတာ္ ္ ဘာလဲ။ ဘယ္လဲ။ ၿ

ိုၿပည္တြင္းထဲက သံဃာထုထဲမွာ ထိပ္တန္းကဘယ္ဆရာေတာ္ေတြလဲ။ သံဃာ႔မဟာနာယက ဆိုတာကေတာ႔ ထားလိုက္ပါေတာ႔ သူတို႔ကသကၤန္း၀တ္ထားတဲ႔ စစ္သား ေတြဆိုေတာ႔
ၿပည္ပဆရာေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ အဓိပတိၾကီးေတြ ၿဖစ္ၾကတဲ႔ မစိုးရိမ္ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးေကာ၀ိဒါဘိ၀ံသ ၊ ပီနန္ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးပညာ၀ံသတို႔ဦးေဆာင္သလို ၿပည္တြင္းမွာ အဂၤါသား ဆရာေတာ္ေတြ(ဆရာေတာ္ဦးဥာဏိႆရ ၊ ဆ၇ာေတာ္ဦးေဇာတိက ၊ ဦးေဆကိႏၵ ၊ ဦးဆႏၵာဓိက)ဦးေဆာင္မႈ ေပးလိုက္ရင္စစ္အစိုးရ ဘယ္လိုေနမလဲ ။
။ ဒီေတာ႔(ပ္)ဆရာေတာ္ ေလးပါးလံုးကုိ ေထာင္ခ်ပစ္ရဲပါ႔မလား ။ ခ်လိုက္ရင္ လူထုအံုၾကြမႈက ဘယ္လိုေနမလဲ ။
ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကေနာက္ေတာင္က်ေနပါေသးတယ္ ။ ၿပည္တြင္းကလူထုက တိုးတိုးတဖံု ၊ က်ယ္က်ယ္တစ္မ်ိဳး အားမလိုအားမရ ေ၀ဖန္ၾကပံုရပါတယ္ ။
(Excerpt from aoab editor,AOAB.blogspot.)

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၁၀၊ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၀၇-ေန႔က လာအုိမွာ အလုပ္လုပ္တဲ့သူတေယာက္နဲ႔ေတြ႔လို႔ အေျခအေနကုိ ေမးၾကည့္တယ္..။ သူက “တႏိုင္ငံလုံး မီးရတယ္။ ေရအဆင္ေျပတယ္။ မိုဘိုင္းဖုန္းဆို အေတာ္ေစ်းခ်ိဳတယ္..၊ ဗမာေငြ သုံးေသာင္းေလာက္ဆုိ သုံးလို႔ရတယ္..။ ဒါေပမဲ့ လမ္းပမ္းဆက္သြယ္ေရးကေတာ့ နဲနဲ အဆင္မေခ်ာလွဘူး” တဲ့...။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဆီမွာေတာ့ ေဆာက္လုိက္တဲ့ဆည္ေတြ..၊ လုပ္လုိုက္တဲ့ ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္ေတြ..။ မစားရ၀ခမန္း ပါပဲ..။ ၀န္ႀကီးေတြ..။ ၫႊန္ခ်ဳပ္၊ ၫႊန္မွဴးေတြ ခ်မ္းးသာသြားတယ္..။ ျပည္သူေတြကေတာ့ ဒုကၡပင္လယ္ေ၀ဆဲ..။
က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ ဗမာမွ ျမန္မာ ေျပာင္းသလုိ..။ ျမန္မာ မွသည္ အားလုံးရွား (Allsia) ႏိုင္ငံလုိ႔ေျပာင္းရင္ ေကာင္းမယ္လို႔ အႀကံေပးရမလိုျဖစ္ေနၿပီ..။
ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိေတာ့ မေလးရွား၊ အင္ဒုိနီးရွား၊ ႐ုရွားစတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္ဆံေနတာကုိး..။ အားလုံးရွားႏိုင္ငံဆုိေတာ့ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္နဲ႔လဲ လုိက္ေလွ်ာညီေထြရွိသြားတာေပါ့..။ ဟုတ္ဘူးလား... နီေသြး

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းက ေမြးသဖခင္ႀကီး ေျပာတဲ့ Burmaysia ကိုသတိရတယ္။ ဘာေမးေမးရွားလို႔ေလ။ Allsia လည္းေကာင္းပါတယ္။ေမာင္ေမာင္ေလး

Burmese Buddist Temple & Activist

David Lim, chairman of Burmese Buddhist temple, said to Straits Times that anyone can come here for prayers, but we dont want it used for political activities. Having a mass of activist shouting slogans did not augur well for the temple image. The temple should be a place of peace,' Lim said, not a domain for 'activists shouting slogans.'
OK Mr Lim, How about those temples in Burma. Peaceful?. Do you think that Mr Yeo, Ms Yade and Ms Munn came to temple to see monk and your committee to discuss the situation in Myanmar. Are you and your committee are scholar or expert in Burma Politics so that Singapore minister , French and UK deputy minister came to BBT to get advise ? Do you think that they visited BBT as a tourist?

If there is no activity at BBT during Saffron revolution do you think that they will come and see your monk and your committee?You may need to see a doctor to get clear view.

What is politics Mr Lim?. Is Praying for fallen heroes at BBT politics? Is Sharing merit at BBT politics. Is Blood donation at BBT politics. These are the things activist did at BBT.
Monk, monastery and democracy activist are closely bind in Burmese history. Please be understand the Burmese politics and its history, otherwise, you are not qualified as BBT chairman.
see the video link of David Lim with Strait times here

UN resolution: Paper Tiger

A UN General Assembly committee approved a draft resolution Tuesday strongly condemning the Burmese military government's crackdown on peaceful protesters and calling on the military junta to immediately release political prisoners.

The vote in the assembly's human rights committee was 88-24 with 66 abstentions(which countries are against the vote.? Why 66 countries in absention, ). The resolution now needs the backing of the 192-nation world body. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion.

The draft resolution calls on Burma's military government "to desist from further arrests and violence against peaceful protesters" and to lift "all restraints on the peaceful political activity of all persons by ... guaranteeing freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression."

It also calls on the junta to provide UN special adviser Ibrahim Gambari with unrestricted access to all parties—including ethnic minority representatives, student leaders and dissident monks—and to engage with him to achieve "effective progress towards the restoration of democracy and the protection of human rights in Myanmar [Burma]

Singapore Police Proactive action again.

One month ago heavily armed Singapore police came into Penisular Plaza and ordered the two young Burmese to take off red T shirt they were wearing. When that action was raised at the Parliament, deputy home minister replied that it was proactive action by police. If that kind of incident happened in Western countries, the concerned authority will apologized. If this two young men were not Burmese, if they were US citizen, what would be the police action? Are these two young Burmese look like terrorist?

During Asean meeting, Sister of Dr Chee, Singapore Democrat Party Secretary General, went near the Sangri La Hotel. She was blocked by police, while ordinary citizen was allowed to pass through. In the video, you can see an old man passing beyond point of two to three policemen and sister of Dr Che arguing. Police had declared the surrounding of Shangri La hotel as protective zone, however they did not declared that no one was allowed to that area.

I do not understand that if normal person be allowed to that area why police cannot allow Dr Chee’s sister to the area where common citizen are allowed.
Police over action have adverse effect to government.

Be careful Singapore police.

Visit the following web site for the above scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfnyayx_7u8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdXH5llsQ5c

Showing Displeasure with courage

We gathered at Starbucks Café near Orchard Parade Hotel at about 6 pm. Then at about 7 pm, we, altogether about 40, changed our clothes , wear red T shirts, stand in group of three, , on the side of Starbucks café, in front of Orchard Parade Hotel. Few of us held a placard that said “listen to Burma’s desire, don’t follow Junta order” “ Asean act with honour” . We gathered there to show our disappointment of Asean way of handling Burmese affairs.

A lot of media men were there, clipping videos and interviewing some of our fellows. About 20 minutes later about 20 plainclothes policemen approached us and an officer with police uniform told to disperse. A few of us were asked to give their particulars to police at the spot. Some were tailed and asked their particulars at the Orchard MRT Station. One of our men was questioned by CID at a bus stop at Eunos.

newspaper video clip here

Asean Charter

တကယ္တန္းေျပာရရင္ အေရွ႔ေတာင္အာရွရဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီဆိုတာ စီးပြားေရး ဖြြံ႔ၿဖိဳးဖို႔ ဆိုတာရဲ့ ေနာက္မွာသာ ရိွေနပါေသးတယ္။ အေရွ႔ေတာင္အာရွရဲ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအၾကားမွာ ကတယ္ရိွေနတဲ့ အျမင္ကေတာ့ တရုတ္ရဲ့အျမန္ႏႈံးနဲ႔ တက္လာတဲ့ စီးပြားေရး ျဖန္႔က်က္မႈ အႏၱရာယ္ကို စိုးရိမ္လို႔သာ အာစီယံ စုဖြဲ႔မႈကို ဒုိင္းသေဘာမ်ဳိးထားၿပီး ခုသာခံသာ ရိွေအာင္ လုပ္ထားတာပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အာစီယံခ်ာတာဟာ ေဒသတြင္းမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးနဲ႔ အေျခခံလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ေတြကို ျမႇင့္တင္ေပးဖို႔၊ ကာကြယ္ဖို႔ ရည္စူးထားေပမဲ့ တကယ္တမ္း အေကာင္အထည္ေဖၚေဆာင္ရြက္မဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မတီကိုေတာ့ လိုအပ္တဲ့ လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ေပးမထားျပန္ပါ ဖူး။ ကုိက္ဖို႔သြားမပါတဲ့ ေခြးတေကာင္လို ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ စကၠဴက်ားလို႔ ေခၚျပန္ရင္လည္း မမွားပါဖူး
From fine leaves blog. Translation from Jeremy Sarki, Toothless Charter Will Hurt ASEAN Credibility by Zaw Min

How do you feel Mr Lee Hsien Long?

Asean leaders called off abruptly a planned summit briefing by Mr Gambari who was invited by Asean chairman Singapore PM Lee Hsien Long. Mr Gambari will not brief Asean or East Asain summit leaders. The announcement was made at the working dinner of Asean leaders. When the announcement was made Burma PM Than Sein was absence.
Now I think, Mr Lee and his counter part from Asean countries will understand the Burmese Junta behavior. They are selfish and brutal. If you accompany with bad guy, your reputation will be tarnished.
The Junta believe might is right only. It is necessary to cornered the Junta by all means. It is a duty of Asean countries to give lesson if you consider Burma Junta as your family, that word is repeatedly used by Asean.

Asean Summit: What they say on Burma

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. :We believe that we should continue to promote the good offices done by the United Nations and rely on the efforts of the people of Burma so that the process toward national reconciliation can be restored and the country can realize peace, stability and development,»

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday rejected the imposition of sanctions against the military government in Myanmar, saying they hurt the civilian population but not the generals. "Economic sanctions are not good and would not make the leaders of Myanmar die," Mr Hun Sen told a business forum in Singapore on the eve of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. "It is more of a disaster for the civilians. So one should not play the game of sanctions,"

The Regional Human Rights group Alternative ASEAN Network ,Coordinator Debbie Storthard told the BBC that ASEAN should not allow the junta to use its roadmap as smokescreen and justification to wreak havoc.

Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer “It is now time for ASEAN to back its words with actions” The US Senate on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Southeast Asian leaders to suspend Myanmar at the summit as punishment over its bloody September crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

Asean Secretary -General Ong Keng Yong defended ASEAN's stance of favouring engagement with the ageing generals who run Myanmar, and said that if threatened with expulsion, they would "just walk away".

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with CNBC Asia ahead of the ASEAN summit Nobody in Asia supports sanctions against Myanmar..

Lecture note for SPDC

Responsibility of government :

Listen to its own people, respond to legitimate popular demand, respect in full the human right of the citizen( Gambari, report to UN Security on The situation in Myanamr, UNSC 5777 meeting, 13 Nov, 2007)

can you give this message to military Junta in next trip? You will be superman if the Junta accept it.

Bowed slightly is not enough

Gambari reported at the UN security council that the junta bowed slightly to international pressure to talk to its opposition but still holds tightly to power.(Not enough; Mr Gambari, still arresting activist. Should stop arresting first if they have genuine intention for reconciliation)

Gambari emphasized the positive side of his second visit . Myanmar's ambassador to the U.N., Kyaw Tint Swe, made it clear that his government expected rewards for its positive moves and that sanctions or criticism would be met with further defiance.( Mr Gambari, be caution when analyzing the current situation, Junta servant is aking reward)

UN Opinion on Gambari Trip

Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- The President of the U.N. General Assembly Srgjan Kerim, President welcomed the inauguration of a process that may lead to substantive and unconditional dialogue among the main parties. He stressed the importance that this process "must achieve concrete results and a clear commitment on the part of the government of Myanmar is required to work constructively with the Special Advisor."

The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, welcomes the willingness expressed by both sides to work with the United Nations to this end,''
Reiterating that return to the status quo that existed before the crisis is not sustainable, Ban encourages the government and all relevant parties to redouble their efforts towards achieving national reconciliation, democracy and full respect for human rights.

What else can we do? Take fresh approach

FM George Yeo said (at dialogue session between Foreign Minister and 50 students from the Singapore Management University 0n Friday,)

If we freeze the bank accounts of those whom we don’t like, after a while we will cease to be a financial center.

On Junta leaders seeking medical treatment here, he said turning them away was not helpful to a policy of engagement which is what works best to get a country to change.

Mr Yeo asked: “ what else can we do? Invade Myanmar? Remove Than Swe, the way the Americans removed Saddam Hussein? Then What after that.

( excerpts from Today Newspaper, 10 November)

I don’t want to argue on his defense for Singapore financial center if Singapore freeze the Junta bank accounts. Please bear in mind that keeping the Junta money in Singapore is like keeping robbed money , that is against the civilized law.

Regarding on Mr Yeo question on” what else we can do”, there are so many ways Singapore can help Burmese. The people of Burma will whole heartedly welcome if troops led by Singapore come into Burma to topple the Junta. Burma will not be a scenario like Iraq after invasion. There is no hatred between ethnic minorities like Kurds and Iraqi, no religious division in Burma such as Sunni and Shiite in Iraq. At the Asean Inter-parliamentary Myanmar Caucus Seminar held on Nov 9, 2007 in Singapore, U Bo Hla Tint pointed out that armed conflicts between the ethnics groups were thing of the past . Thus Burma would be thrown into disarray should the Junta be suddenly replaced by a democratic government concept is not valid. Those who advocate this concept do not understand Burma political scenario.
At the Asean Inter-parliamentary Myanmar Caucus Seminar, the rest of the group, except Deputy Speaker of Parliament Indranee Rajah, called for greater action from Asean, it was not enough for Asean only to put its full moral weight behind Mr Gambari's mission. I totally agree with Mr Charles Chong that as Asean has been using softer approach in persuasion for more than 10 years, it is really a time to take a fresh approach.

Thank You Mr Gambari.

November 8, 2007 – United Nations Special Envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, has issued a blunt warning to Burma's military government that a return to the status quo of pre-protest Burma is unacceptable.

Gambari Visit: Pro and cons

Pros.

1. Daw Su can release the statement(meaningful and time bound dialogue with SDPC)
2. Daw Su and NLD leader can meet.

Cons Minimum release of international pressure especially in Asean summit.

It is a big win for SPDC,and big lost for us, as there will be a minimum release of international pressure especially in Asean summit. SPDC IS PLAYING GAME FOR ASEAN SUMMIT..

Following is the text of the statement by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as released Mr Ibrahim Gambari.

By Assiociated Press

"I wish to thank all those who have stood by my side all this time, both inside and outside my country. I am also grateful to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his unwavering support for the cause of national reconciliation, democracy and human rights in my country.

"I welcome the appointment on 8 October of Minister Aung Kyi as minister for relations. Our first meeting on 25 October was constructive and I look forward to further regular discussions. I expect that this phase of preliminary consultations will conclude soon so that a meaningful and timebound dialogue with the SPDC leadership can start as early as possible.

"In the interest of the nation, I stand ready to cooperate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success and welcome the necessary good offices role of the United Nations to help facilitate our efforts in this regard.

"In full awareness of the essential role of political parties in democratic societies, in deep appreciation of the sacrifices of the members of my party and in my position as General Secretary, I will be guided by the policies and wishes of the National League for Democracy. However, in this time of vital need for democratic solidarity and national unity, it is my duty to give constant and serious considerations to the interests and opinions of as broad a range of political organizations and forces as possible, in particular those of our ethnic nationality races.

"To that end, I am committed to pursue the path of dialogue constructively and invite the government and all relevant parties to join me in this spirit.

"I believe that stability, prosperity and democracy for my country, living at peace with itself and with full respect for human rights, offers the best prospect for my country to fully contribute to the development and stability of the region in close partnership with its neighbors and fellow ASEAN members, and to play a positive role as a respected member of the international community.

Daw Su Unwell

November 06, 2007—Burma’s detained democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, is being treated at her home for an unknown illness, according to her party, the National League for Democracy. NLD Spokesman Nyan Win told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that the party had learnt that medical personnel had been visiting her lakeside home on Rangoon’s University Avenue. “But we do not know yet whether she is suffering from a serious illness or not,” said Nyan Win. The Irrawaddy could not reach Suu Kyi’s family doctor for his comment. [The Irrawaddy

Where is Gambari? Being Kidnapped?

Gambari who carry "a specific message for Senior General Than Shwe from the Secretary-General" Ban Ki-moon arrived in Burma on Saturday. After arrival at Yangon Airport, he immediately flew to Naypyidaw. Since then, no news about him come out yet . I worry that he was abducted at Naypyidaw.

Tay Za admit US Sanction effect Air Bagan.

"Air Bagan Ltd...is facing a myriad of problems because of wrongful sanctions imposed by the US administration. Due to restrictions on banking facilities, Air Bagan is encountering operational difficulties," Tay Za in a speech for celebrations to mark Air Bagan's third anniversary."The capital of Air Bagan is not related in any way with such business as drug trafficking, arms sales and money laundering but comes from the earnings of Htoo Group of companies through our legitimate business."

Can he declare how much Tax he has paid to the country since 1990? So that everyone can guess how he became richest man in Burma. The amount he paid should be tally with his net assess.
How come Htoo group of companies became large business conglomerate after 1990? Everyone know that business cannot prosper if there is no connection with the Junta. He is a real carpetbagger. It was said that he was involved in tourism, infrastructure projects, mobile telephone services and was involved in the government's purchase of helicopters from Russia.

US pressures Singapore.

The US has put pressure on Singapore and its banks to cut financial ties with the Junta. According to Reutuers, US official Kristen Silverberg told reporters: We believe that there are regime officials with accounts in Singapore. We hope that they ensure that their financial institutions are not being used as a sanctuary for Burmese officials. Thank you Kristen

In response to Straits Times queries MAS spokesman referred to FM George Yeo’s reply to Parliament on Oct 22” As Singapore is an international financial center and funds can be transferred for various purpose including payment for goods and services, trades on the stock exchange, even for school fees. Banks and financial institution to have strict procedures to monitor and report any suspicious transaction.

Singapore reply to 88 generation student

SINGAPORE: Singapore continues to give its full backing to the United Nations Secretary-General's envoy Ibrahim Gambari as he helps Myanmar achieve a peaceful reconciliation.
Myanmar’s pro-democracy group 88 Generation Students had written to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo on Thursday, asking for ASEAN to consider suspending Myanmar's membership of ASEAN and other issues.
Responding with points made by Minister Yeo in parliament last month, Special Assistant to Minister Chi Chiew Sum said ASEAN needs to retain links with Myanmar in order to keep its moral influence on the nation.
He assured the group that Singapore is committed to continue working with the UN for peaceful national reconciliation in Myanmar. - CNA/ac

Wish for Burma

စိတ္ကမေၾကာက္ဘဲ ေခါင္းကုိမတ္စြာထားႏုိင္ေသာ အရပ္၌လည္းေကာင္း ႔ ႔
ပညာသည္ လြတ္လပ္ရာ အရပ္၌လည္းေကာင္း ႔ ႔ ႔
စကားသည္ နက္ရိႈင္းေသာ သစၥာအတြင္းမွလာေသာ အရပ္၌လည္းေကာင္း ႔ ႔ ႔
႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔
႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔ ႔
ထိုလြတ္လပ္ေသာ နိဗၺာန္၌ တပည့္ေတာ္တို႔၏ တုိင္းျပည္သည္ ႏိုးၾကားႏုိင္ပါေစ အရွင္ဘုရား ႔ ႔

By Tagore(copy from fine leaves blog)

Slap in the face for Ban Ki-Moon

The Junta has ordered the expulsion of Charles Petrie, United Nations humanitarian coordinator. The move comes on the eve of a visit by the United Nations special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari. The Junta accused Petrie of "acting beyond his capacity in issuing the statement." The statement, sent out Oct. 24, urged the government to listen to dissenting voices in Myanmar and warned of a "deteriorating humanitarian situation.

Singapore is deeply disappointed to learn of the Myanmar government's decision to discontinue the assignment of the UNDP Resident Coordinator Charles James Petrie in Myanmar," Singapore FM spokeman said. "This announcement has come at a most inopportune time, just before the arrival of (UN special envoy) Ibrahim Gambari," the spokesman added
So what UN will do? How Asean can cowed The Junta.? Outside world do not understand the Junta mentality. They are fools, no one can guess correctly their next move. Better send to mental hospital and give electric shock. That is the only solution.

200 monks protest in Pakokku

Oct 31, 2007 (DVB)Around 200 monks from several monasteries in Pakokku staged a walking protest at 8.30 this morning, according to a monk who participated in the march.

The monk said that the protest was a continuation of last month�s demonstrations as he said the monks� demands have still not been met.

hanted metta as they marched three in a row, with monks in the first row holding Sasana flags.

They started walking along Bogyoke road towards Thida road, then turned into Pauk road before ending the march at Shwe Ku pagoda.

The protest began about one hour after a pro-government rally in the same town ended, and authorities did not intervene to stop the monks� march.

The monks reportedly notified the authorities in advance, telling them that if a pro-government demonstration was taking place then the monks should also be allowed to hold their protest.

Different view with Than Myint U& Bertil Lintner

I have not read yet the book "River of the Lost footstep" written by Than Myint U, grandson of late UN General Secretary. Singapore FM George Yeo and a few Asean leaders and political analyst, authors refer to his book on defending ASEAN policy on Burma. However i encountered following sentences of Than Myint U in newspaper. I am so upset and his words are misleading. I wonder whether George Yeo and political analyst would be noticed of Than Myint U's book if he is not a grandchild of U Thant.

Thant Myint U-

"She's probably the only person who could counsel patience and moderation and be able to bring a large part of the population with her"This will be important for the transition, but beyond that it's impossible to know how well she would be able to cope with the challenges of day-to-day government."

Opinion 1. She is the only person to cope with the challenge of day to day government. Than M U underestimate her ability and very pessimistic on the people in Burma and do not understand the people of Burma quite well. The civilian can handle on economic and policy matter more better than the current ministers (generals). However, we could not expect excellence good governance like developed countries.

Opinion 2 This is really underestimating the ability DASSK. Look around the current leaders in ASEAN countries, who can come close to the leadership qualities of DASSK. What we need most during the first decade (assume 2 terms NLD is government) is great leader, not great manager who can manage the day-to-day operations of government. Of course leaders can make mistakes, as everyone does. We people also have to be patient. But I don’t think DASSK will keep making mistakes in all 10 years in office. And we all must bear in mind that in today’s situation if DASSK is gone, our hopes are almost gone. It takes decades to emerge such a good leader. We’ve already lost one. She is now in her 60s. Not much time left. Let’s not loose her. Bear in mind that no leader can build a nation alone. Everyone has a part to play

Thant Myint-U
"Rebuilding shattered structures at the same time as easing the army out of its overall government role is an almost unprecedented task. It's hard for me to think of another situation in which that has happened peacefully," ,
Opinion 1 Yes, it might be unprecedented task, but not an impossible task. Take for e.g., building Israel after WW2. They’ve also started with nothing. No government, no army, nothing. It is the strong will of people that make Israel to today’s status. And we’ve great leaders, like DASSK, 88 generation students who can really motivate and change the ideas of people. We have many intellectuals in the world who are very keen to contribute for the development of our country.
Opinion 2 Once the military is under the elected government, rebuilding the shattered structures is not too difficult.. Phasing out the military from the politics and management position in various sector is most important. All military personal, especially high ranking official, have their mindset to be changed. Military have their decision on military matter only, not to be involved in economy, social and policy matter.We have so many patriot Burmese around the world. We have a great leader DASSK and 88 generation leaders who were competent.We don't

Than Myint U
We dont want Myanmar to be a parallel of Iraq, where we said it's good Saddam Hussein is no longer there, but then did not know how to handle the insurgency that went on after he was gone

Than Myint U do not understand the current political situation of Burma. No ethnic minority asked for independence. They ask for Fedration only. Ethnic minority take up arm struggle as they were not given their rights by Ne Win, Than Shwe military government. All people were given same right in the Federation no body will take up arm struggle.

Bertil Lintner

The transition to civilian rule is bound to be extremely difficult, given the fact that the country has not had a truly civilian government since 1962," Eelements of the military would have to be retained to guide the country through such turbulent times.

As long as military personnel regard that the democratic system is best for our country the transition period may not be extremely difficult. However, I agree that there will be a lot of problems in transition period.. Under the leadership of Daw Su and 88 generation leaders those problems can be solved.

Opinion 2 I agree with the fact that the transition to civilian rule will be very difficult but not to the extent that the military elements must guide the country for such transition to occur. This is the thinking and blind believes of the military. But the leaders of the civilian government need to get the full support of the military to sustain the achieved democracy. I have two points to point out.

1. Today is not like the days of 1962 in a sense that the communism has already proven to be a failed ideology. The remaining communist forces in the country will not raise arm’s struggle to get control of government like we’d experienced before.

2. The ethnic groups. My understanding is that today none of the ethnic group is asking for full independence. They are just asking for equal rights and federal states which are quite appropriate for our country’s situation. So the question of disintegration of the country is just a lie of military. And ethnic groups know that their goals also can only be achieved by political means.