For a decade I and many other Burmese exiles
overseas were expecting him to become like Phillipines’s General Ramos, who – as
the Vice-Chief-of-Staff of Philippines Armed Forces during the 1986 People
Power Revolution in Philippines – broke away from President Marcos’s
Administration and supported Corazon Aquino, and eventually became the Twelfth
President of The Republic of Philippines.
What Min Aung Hlaing had to do to become Burma’s Ramos was just accept the people’s will, reform the hated 2008 Constitution, marched his troops back to the barracks, keep the army as a professional institution, and stay well away from the politics. He could even become a president of Union of Burma in a very near future like Ramos.
No, that was too
easy for our stupid Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing. Instead, he foolishly
staged the Feb-1 Coup, detained the NLD leaders including much-loved Daw Suu,
and started killing hundreds and thousands of people who tried to resist his
mad power grab.
I believe - if the
sad history of military dictators before him is a guide to what will eventually
happen to Min Aung Hlaing and his immediate family – they will be either hunted
down and slaughtered like Muama Gaddaffi by the people, or convicted in a court
of justice and hanged like Saddam Hussein.
But it is still
not too late yet. Repent for the sake of your four young grandchildren, all
girls, and release Daw Suu, let the Pyithu Huttaw (Parliament) open ASAP,
apologize to the people of Burma, and march your troops back to the barracks
after reforming the 2008 Constitution. And people of Burma will forgive you for
your temporary madness. You could even become a president like Ramos.
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| Ramos accepted the will of people and he was handsomely rewarded. |
