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to a 5-Star Senior General, and firmly upheld Myanmarism. At the death of Senior General Saw Maung, Senior General Than Shwe took his place and ruled the country in the name of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
Today, Tamadaw (i.e. Myanmarese Armed Forces) continues to constitutionalize Myanmarese colonialism, of course at the gunpoint as usual. Please see our ADF Manifesto at ADF web site http://www.shwelumaung.org/central & http://www.shwelumaung.org/index.html. This arrogant and belligerent Myanmarism has let the fury of the feudal past boil over into this modern time. Unfortunate it is. We, the Rakhaing Nation, have no choice but wage a war against it. Armed or unarmed our struggle is legitimate.
Under such lawless colonial condition, we, citizens of Rakhaingpray (Arakan), in exercise of sovereign authority collectively, would like to emphasize our territorial integrity with respect to the 1454-border Agreement of our Arakanese King Meng Khari alias Ali Khan and Myanmar King Ava Min Khaung. The two sovereign kings signed the border demarcation agreement with due recognition and respect of each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity in April 1454 CE (Arakanese era: the 6 waxing day of TannKhone AE 816). They met at the Mount Nway Cho Pho Khaung of Arakan Roma Ridge and the border demarcation line was drawn along the crest of Arakan Roma Ridge from the Northern tip down to Mawtin Edge (Cape Negris) at the south into Bay of Bengal. The oceanic island, Haigri, is included in the Arakanese territories. Violating this border agreement Myanmar King Bodaw Maung Wyne annexed Arakan in 1784, under the eyewitness of the British East India Authorities. Upon the victory of the First Anglo-Burman War, Arakan was handed over to the British as per Rantapo Treaty signed by the British and the Myanmar on the 24th February 1826. In that Rantapo Treaty, the territory of our Rakhaingpray (Arakan) was defined according to the 1454-border agreement signed our Arakanese King Meng Khari alias Ali Khan and Myanmar King Ava Min Khaung.
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