KNU President Saw Tamla Baw’s address on 59th anniversary of Martyrs Day

KNU President Saw Tamla Baw’s address on 59th anniversary of Martyrs Day
2009 August 11
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
KAREN NATIONAL UNION
KAWTHOOLEI
August 12, 2009
Dear Karen Nationals, KNLA Officers and Men,
Firstly, I would like to extend my best wishes to all of you for the wellbeing of your body and mind.
The 12th of August is the day for honoring the heroic martyrs, Saw Ba U Gyi and all those who have sacrificed their lives in the struggle for justice and freedom for the Karen people.
We, the Karen people, have to wage a just war for gaining our birth rights. We still cannot struggle out of the various forms of persecution imposed on us by the military dictatorship.
Since our policy is to resolve political problems by political means, we have met with successive military dictatorships for several times, on different occasions.
However, as the military dictatorships, following the ideology of extreme chauvinism, have rejected the process of negotiation for resolving political problems, we still have to be struggling in the battle field.
Secondly, I would like to say that in the struggle for gaining their birth rights, the Karen people have been fighting together with other fellow oppressed ethnic nationalities against the ruling extremist military clique.
However, the Karen people still have not escaped from various forms of oppression and enslavement and they still have to bear increasingly vicious oppression, killing and tyranny. The chauvinist extremists and the military clique have been ceaselessly sowing dissension among the different ethnic nationalities and within each ethnic nationality.
We, the Karen people, and fellow comrades must always be alert to all the attempts by the enemy to sow dissension among us.
Thirdly, I would like to say that in the horrendous 60 years journey of the Karen people’s revolution, just as many shining patriots and heroes have emerged, there have been many traitors and ideologues of defeatism.
Using the traitors and defeatists, the military clique is pulling strings from behind to break up the KNU and launch military offensive against it.
In addition, the SPDC military clique is persistently attempting to hold elections in 2010 so as to become a legitimate military government based on the 2008 Constitution, which it has adopted by force and fraud. Before holding the elections, the military clique is planning to transform the armies of ethnic ceasefire organizations into the so-called Border Guard Forces and control them directly.
Our revolution is on the right path and it will never fail if we follow the policies, rules and regulations laid down, in accordance with Saw Ba U Gyi’s guideline, by the 14th Congress of KNU, for wiping out the enemy’s plots to divide us.
KNU President Saw Tamla Baw’s Address on 59th Anniversary of Martyrs Day. It is an important time for us to struggle on with unity and single mindedness, in obedience to the KNU leadership at various levels and in compliance with the organization’s rules and regulations, in cooperation with the entire Karen people, the fellow oppressed ethnic nationalities and the democratic forces for the right to decide our own destiny, equality, establishment of democracy and a genuine Federal Union.
In conclusion, I would like to earnestly urge you to make utmost effort, with the spirit of the martyrs, for the annihilation of the enemy and achievement of final victory.
Central Executive Committee
Karen National Union
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