New Year Message

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"As the New Year rings in and the world takes account of momentous events, Burma was by passed. To the Americans, it seems that only two News events were noticed from this miserable country. One is the selling of short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) by North Korea (DPRK) to Burma and the other is the American action on the laundering of Narco-dollars.

On the Burmese side, it is assisting North Korea in its clandestine efforts to market drugs to the rest of the world. The 125 kg of heroin seized from a North Korean cargo vessel off the eastern coast of Australia in April 2003 was packaged in bags carrying the Double U O Globe brand, a trademark of the UWSA related group. Besides, the Junta has allowed his narco- technicians (chemist) to go to Pyongyang to advise the North Koreans on how to improve the quality of their own locally produced heroin.

But 2003, clearly, was the year of the United States war against Iraq. It was important because the greatest power in the world has mounted a deliberate challenge to the authority of the United Nations and the international rule of law for the first time in 60 years, In fact the US is challenging the whole system of rules that has governed relations between the great powers since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, for it is declaring a doctrine of 'limited sovereignty' far more sweeping than the one that Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev decreed for Soviet satellite regimes when he invaded Czechoslovakia in 1970.The Bush administration has made it clear that no nation which Washington suspects of backing terrorists or developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is safe from American military intervention. But paradoxically Burma has escaped from that list.

Now that Burma is acquiring mass weapons of mass destruction with the narcotic drugs spreading throughout the world especially in the streets of America it is high time that Burma should be put in the bull's eye of American administration."

Writer: Kanbawza Win (Mizzima News) - Date: 1/2/2004

Entire article: http://www.dassk.org/contents.php?id=649

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