National solidarity serves as nation's political force and steel wall defending and safeguarding sovereignty
Barbarous acts of traitors, SURA and KNU, under instigation of Yodaya so heart-rending and loathsome
People of Shan State (North) show respect for sovereignty
[ 19th June, 2002 ]

The ceremony to support the national people's mass rallies denouncing SURA and KNU insurgents, who are encroaching on security and peace in border areas, and to show respect for sovereignty of the Union of Myanmar took place at the Pyidaungsu sports ground in Lashio, Shan State (North) on 19 June morning.

It was attended by local people of wards in Lashio, members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association, Red Cross Society, nurses association, Auxiliary Fire Brigade, War Veterans Organization, Women's Affairs Committee, Maternal and Child Welfare Association, the State flag bearing troupes, band troupes, teachers and students from basic education high schools in Lashio.

  
Hsinbyushin column marching and Bayintnaung column marching to the mass meeting.

Led by the State flag bearing troupes and band troupes, the people of Hsinbyushin column from Hsutaungpyi Mansu Pagoda gathering point and Bayintnaung column from gymnasium gathering point marched into the sports ground and took positions there.

As a gesture of showing respect for sovereignty of the Union of Myanmar, the State flags were hoisted at department offices, schools, markets, streets, houses and buildings on that day.

Lashio Township USDA Member U Sai Sein Lin Oo acted as master of ceremonies.

  
The ceremony to support national people's mass rallies denouncing SURA and KNU insurgents,
who are encroaching on security and peace in border areas, and to show respect for sovereignty of the
Union of Myanmar in progress at the Pyidaungsu sports ground in Lashio, Shan State (North).

Then, those present at the meeting saluted the State Flag.

Next, Lashio Township USDA Member Daw Nan Hat Hsaing explained the purpose of the ceremony.

She said it is the inborn duty of all the national people to decisively crush the danger to the security and sovereignty.

     
Lashio Township USDA Member Daw Nan Hat Hsaing.

On 20 May, the traitors, SURA insurgent group under Ywet Sit's command and KNU remnant insurgents, who are loyal to the other country and not to their own, attacked the Tatmadaw outposts guarding the territory of the nation. These insurgents are relying on Yodaya.

The people held mass rallies denouncing the destructive acts which were held in Kengtung on 1 June and Taunggyi on 2 June.

At present, harmonious efforts are being made for emergence of a new modern and developed nation. We, the national brethren, of Lashio in Shan State (North) hoist State flags and gather here to show our unanimous support to the mass rallies denouncing the destructive acts of SURA and KNU traitors relying on Yodaya army and to make a declaration that we will decisively smash any kind of enemy trying to encroach on the sovereignty.

We, the national people, totally oppose such acts of those who are loyal to the other country and not to their own. Since many many years ago, Myanmar has firmly existed as a united and patriotic nation. Since thousands of years ago, the national brethren have been living on their land in unity.

No foreigner can love the Union of Myanmar more than our national races do. The one that is assisting the insurgents in making attempts to sow seeds of mistrust, to destabilize the Union and to hamper and stop progress is our common enemy.

On 20 May 2002, the SURA and KNU under the instigation and assistance of Yodaya, taking footholds there, disturbed peace and security of border areas in Myanmar. They attacked the Tatmadaw outposts at Panmaisun, Nyaungbingon, Pangangaw and Yanpaisun. The Yodaya military camps opposite to the outposts also gave supporting artillery fire. It was an act brazenly violating our sovereignty.

The barbarous acts of the traitors, SURA and KNU, under the instigation of Yodaya are so heart-rending and loathsome for us.

Yodaya has been making various attempts to destroy Myanmar since many years ago. Especially, Yodaya is making wicked plans to destabilize the political and economic sectors of Myanmar and to give trouble to her people.

All the national race groups of Myanmar are living peacefully and unitedly in the sovereign Myanmar, making endeavors for emergence of a modern and developed nation.

At this time, a handful of SURA drug-trafficking insurgents and KNU terrorist insurgents are committing terrorist acts to cause a bloodshed among the national people. We are totally against their terrorist attacks. We will decisively crush all attempts to encroach on the sovereignty. Thus, the SURA and KNU will surely fall.

It is the national duty of all the people of Myanmar to smash the SURA and KNU insurgents and foreign enemies trying to encroach on the sovereignty.

It is time SURA and KNU insurgents know that the people are going to smash them as public life and property have lost due to their terrorist acts.

The national solidarity is the nation's political force. It is also a steel wall defending and safeguarding the sovereignty.

So, let us smash all the intruders from outside and inside the country who are trying to disturb national security, progress and sovereignty.

     
Lashio Township USDA Member U Lwan Ze.

U Lon Ze, an organizer of No 5 Ward USDA Lashio said, the purpose of assembling here and saluting the State flag is to declare that we are going to respond with our unity and strength to any act of encroachment on the sovereignty of the State.

Since the beginning of 2001, SURA led by drug-trafficking insurgent Ywet Sit and KNU destructive insurgents, taking footholds in Yodaya, have been attempting to disrupt the security and stability of the State and the peaceful condition in border areas. On 20 May 2002, SURA led by Ywet Sit and KNU insurgents, attacked the border outposts of the Tatmadaw with the heavy weapons support of the Yodaya army. Our national brethren held mass rallies to denounce the act of encroachment on our sovereignty in Kengtung and Taunggyi.

If the nail is pinched, the finger head will feel hurt, so goes the saying, and we, the national brethren from Lashio, Shan State (North), emphatically support these mass rallies and wholeheartedly respect the sovereignty of the Union of Myanmar.

If the State flags hoisted all over Lashio and all over the nation are looked at, red, white and blue colors will be seen.

Red signifies bravery and decisiveness; white, cleanness and purity; blue, peace and serenity.

As is known to all, the national duty of every citizen is to be imbued with patriotism and national pride.

Our Union of Myanmar has an area of 261,228 square miles. The sovereignty of the Union of Myanmar applies to the whole area. Therefore, on behalf of our national brethren, I pledge that we will not let even an inch of the territory of the State be conceded and the sovereignty of the nation be encroached upon.

Today Yodaya is accommodating, feeding, arming and financing SURA, KNU and destructive insurgents, and using them as a human shield between the two nations. With the support of the Yodaya army, they are levelling insults at the border areas.This amounts to insulting the sovereignty of our nation and attempting to disrupt the security and peace in the border areas.

Therefore, I would like to sound a clarion call to the entire national people to safeguard the sovereignty of the State in cooperation with the Tatmadaw and to fight against every act of aggression with patriotism.

Anyone who attempts to encroach upon the sovereignty of the State and anyone who attempts to destroy the lives and property of the national brethren are the common enemy of the State and the people.

SURA and KNU insurgents, relying on the Yodaya army, are acting to the detriment of our nation and the national races. It is an act of fawning upon aunt instead of mother. It is time for us to evince Union Spirit bravely and to crush destructive elements.

As is known to all, Yodaya is persistently attempting to slacken our nation. It is blatantly supporting every kind of insurgents opposing Myanmar. Now it is brazenly attempting to encroach upon the sovereignty of the nation. They are acting with the base motive that if our national brethren are not in unity, the State will break up.

Here the point I would like to stress is that our Union-born national people are in unity and harmony. We all have already pledged to crush any enemy who encroaches on the sovereignty of the State.

All the entire national people residing in the Union of Myanmar including the national brethren in Lashio, Shan State (North), are to safeguard the Union with Union Spirit and national solidarity.

  
National people shouting slogans at the ceremony to support national people's mass
rallies denouncing SURA and KNU insurgents and to show respect for sovereignty.

In conclusion, I would like to call on all the national people to cooperate with the Tatmadaw in annihilating the remnants of SURA and KNU destructive insurgents who are attempting to disrupt the stability and peaceful condition of the Union of Myanmar and encroaching upon the sovereignty of the State with reliance on the Yodaya army. Then, the mass rally shouted slogans-

non-disintegration of the Union -                our cause, our cause;
non-disintegration of national solidarity -   our cause, our cause;
perpetuation of sovereignty -                      our cause, our cause,

which brought the ceremony to a close.

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