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We Demand for Decolonization of Burma
Myanmar Colonialism Defined
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Dr. Shwe Lu Maung alias Shahnawaz Khan, Ph.D. (Wales, UK),
The Patron and Chief Executive Officer of Arakan Democratic Forces
June 3, 2001, Copyright © 2001.
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"Comrades,
Of the three main duties of our Tamadaw at present, the first is that of defending and protecting the State and ensuring its security.
Our State has been in existence as an independent one among the nations of the world for thousands of years. It is a State that had stood tall with its own kings all through the eras of Tagaung, Sriksetra, Pagan, Myinsing, Sagaing, Pinya, Ava and Konbaung ..............
Our Mother land which Anawrahta, Kyansittha, Bayinnaung, Alaungapaya, Sinbyushin, and Bogyoke Aung San had built up nurtured and consolidated through ages, cannot be allowed to be in disorder and to disintegrate during our time. ..........."
The above is a piece of excerpt from the address delivered at the 1989-44th Anniversary Resistance Day (Armed Forces Day) Parade by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services, Senior General Saw Maung. In 1988, he succeeded the state
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