Aung Kyi and Maung Maung, Paper Tigers
RANGOONP
Paper Tigers Are Over
One must distinguish how political realism and political phantasm prospects
whether the former military leader Gen. Aung Kyi and Gen. Maung Maung can play
an important role in Burma political changes. In the political realism
perception, the former generals are just paper tigers and just to be used for
the SPDC's stands by the SPDC. The political phantasm, however, needlessly
entertains them as live tigers walking into a town so that people grow either
worry or enigma in gravid.
In fact, the two old men era and power were over long times ago. What they all
can do in U.S. is to polish their services in the army just for pleasure and
refreshment.
Because the SPDC cannot even talk with the NLD and other democratic forces, the
functions among hard-liners in the arm forced leaders arise disagreements how
to handle Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Gen. Maung Aye's group wants to put her under
house arrest. On the other hands, Gen. Khin Nyunt's group wants to divide Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD's executives. As a result, thousands of democracy
advocates have been thrown into the harsh prisons by both groups.
The SPDC clearly aware what's going on in Indonesia, and Burma will be next
one. But the stupidity of the military leaders cannot premeditate future bloody
disaster. So that "let it be whatever it happens to be" is the SPDC's forefront
policy.
We, political realism, exam "can-do and cannot-do" by those two old guys
presently visiting in the U.S.. One thing certain is that Gen. Aung Kyi is a
criminal who ordered to kill students and bombed the Student Union building in
the Rangoon University when he was serving as a commander-in-chief in the
Burmese armed force. More over, he has sit and insulted the NLD and Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi for many years. As a result, he wins many businesses.
To tell the truth, the most popular letters in 1988-kown as Aung Kyi's letters,
were written by some students. But the students simply used Aung Kyi's name to
raise the political reform issues.
In August 1988, one month before the SLORC took over power, 24 students leaders
met Aung Gyi in his resident in Rangoon and requested to cooperate with Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi and U Nu to from an interim government. But he refused and
replied to the students that he would be the next president of Burma after Ne
Win. He said he was second Ne Win in terms of powerful man in the army so
students should wait. In the end, the SLORC seized the power in and ruled Burma
for ten years. But Aung Kyi has never become the Burma's next prescient, rather
he compromised with the SLORC and SPDC.
In short, all at this time must not fantasize the paper tigers, but all should
express the truth.
The Rangoon Post Working Group (USA)