Vol. VI, No. 3, March 1992 +-+-+-+-+ - Ibiblio

not wait till their next life for retribution.... The HIV virus
destroys human immunity system. Lack of culture, religion and moral
conduct virus is equally dreadful. Persons with such a virus will
suffer not only in this life but in all subsequent lives throughout
the eternal cycle of rebirths."
[(2) {sic} "There is a threat to our national culture posed by
some whose blood is not pure and others whose blood may be pure but
who still esteem only foreigners.... They prefer twisting, hopping
and contorting Break Dance, Rock, Shake and Twist to gentle and
graceful Myanma choreography.... At novitiation and charitable
ceremonies, musicians have now left out oboeists and have included
Casio synthesizers .... Puppets have now been stowed away in wooden
chests.... Let all of us...try and preserve our precious cultural
heritage, control invasion of foreign culture to the best of our
ability, and teach our children to come to enjoy Myanmar cultural
music, dance, painting, carving and writings."]
Mar. 3-5,10-11,13-21,25-31: Post independence press in
retrospect (1948-1958), by Shwe Kalaung. [Cont. (100-120) Political
divisiveness in the Myanmar press.]
Mar. 6-10: Pettifoggers and their chicanery, by Sithu Aung.
[(1) BBC on Mar. 2 quoted correspondent Lindsay Hailstrong at Cox's
Bazaar that "close to one hundred thousand Rohingas are now living in
refugee camps and tents in Bangladesh," that a Buddhist monk
"informed Rakhine Buddhists {in Buthitaung} that those who co-operate
with the Tatmadaw in evicting Rohinga Muslims would be rewarded with
land and property." He reported stories of men conscripted by the
army as porters, the rape of women, and that "young Muslims who tried
to escape from forced labour camps have been shot dead by Myanmar
troops." The Bangkok Post on Mar. 3 said that "Myanmar troops had
last week killed about a hundred Muslims and injured by gun shots and
bayonetting five hundred other Muslims," and that "about 3000 Muslim
homes in the seventeen townships of Rakhine have been burnt down."
These are all fabrications by "so-called refugees" who "are
persisting in making these false accusations to cover up their guilty
conscience over really why they had fled."
[(2) "A majority of those who fled are landless and homeless
seasonal labourers" who cross into Myanmar every year and then return
home after the harvest.
[(3) Most of those who fled have no Myanmar registration
certificates. In the area from which people fled, 70% know no Myanmar
or Rakhine, and only 10% speak either well. The object of the
Rohingas is to use international pressure to get nationality status
and the right to vote. Then they will demand a separate state. "Their
objective is to create a state called Arakandesh and then secede from
the Union. These have been discovered in their propaganda papers."
[(4) "Rohinga insurgents had aspired to take over Buthidaung
and Maungdaw Areas {in 1942 and 1947} .... Their vocation was to
smuggle rice into the next country, to sell arms to political
dissidents in the next country, to trade in narcotics, to trade young
girls via the next country with foreign countries.... That is why
they are creating communal hatred religious distinctions and other
acts to sow hatred against the Tatmadaw. Every reasoning person can
easily see through their falsehoods together with their illogical
exaggerations {details of alleged atrocities given}...."
[(5) "Myanmar is not a public rest house where any body may
come in and live without let or hindrance.... Unlike some other
countries Myanmar does not oppress illegal immigrants, does not
imprison them in barbed-wire compounds, does not forcibly repatriate
them, does not starve them by doling out only morsels of food.... One
of the richest countries in the world...is itself forcibly
repatriating over ten thousand Haitians.... Myanmar has never
forcibly repatriated any illegal immigrant. Those who have now fled
Myanmar because they are being lured away by promises of cash,
clothing and food assistance, because they are being frightened by
false reports of racial and religious persecution or because they
themselves dare not face the Law for their lack of any identification