DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Yangon 7th July pictures in Yangon University magazine

July 7, is the anniversary of students killed by Ne Wins army in 1962. On, 8th July 1962, army blew up student union building killing many students inside. It is a v dark day Burmese students will never forget. Twenty years later, in 1983, RASU students made the following cover picture for annual university magazine. Only a few people knew this happened. Rangoon University annual magazine cover of 1983-84 was designed by students in the memory of students died when government troops shot demonstration in 1962. The cover did not show anything controversial if you do not look carefully. There are many hidden parts both in background and objects. Back cover looks clean and plain but it was said that there were also parts with special meanings. The university authorities stopped selling the magazines within a few days.I was young at that time and dont know much about hidden meanings but I kept this book.

Background story:

year 1962 On July 7th, the university students held a meeting in response to the government's actions, and demonstrated in the university compound. Such a continuing expression of dissent was intolerable for Ne Win. A police security group came to scatter the demonstrators with the tear gas, and arrested the All-Burma Students Union Chairman, Ko Thet, as well as the University Students

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR

Union Chairman, Ko Swe Lay.Gen. Ne Win Slaughters Unarmed Burmese Youth. Then the abominations began. At about 5:00 pm, two army trucks came into the University compound. The soldiers jumped out and began shooting down the students. Ne Win's crony General Sein Lwin, who titled himself "The Lion", led this disgraceful terrorist operation against the unarmed, innocent students.

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14-Jul-10Infantry Unit #4 was given the order to shoot. For three minutes, all you could hear was shooting, shouting, screaming, glass breaking, people running, bullets hitting the wall, and the wounded students moaning, as if the world was on fire. Other students heard the gunfire and started to run away, but the soldiers started shooting again, until the dead bodies began to pile up around the compound. Thus, the helpless Burmese students, running for their lives, were grudgingly and cruelly shot down by their own army.

Even at the great battle in front lines of war, those soldiers could not see such a pile of dead and wounded enemies. In this case, about 200 students died. But the government, ashamed, announced that only 15 students had died, with 27 wounded. On July 8th, to be sure that the students had gotten the message, the army also blew up the Student Union Building. It came down with a loud explosion of army mines. Along with the building, Ko Kyaw Win of Myaung Mya, who had been hiding himself in the building, died.

When the University was finally reopened, the students who lost arms or legs, who were shot in the face or in the stomach, arrived at school with bandages still covering their wounds. Later these students were sent to other universities, and we lost contact with many of them. Some died from their wounds. (Source) http://dathana.blogspot.com/2005/07/7th-july-pictures-in-yangonuniversity.html

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THE HISTORY OF THE STUDENT MOVEMENT IN BURMA

( by HMINE SAT AUNG ) Nowadays, the members of the so-called State Peace and Development Council? feel constrained on all sides by their failures, and by their growing problems in the economy, politics, education, and social services. Moreover, they have the additional problem of their drug business to sort out. They are constantly torn between their desire for personal benefit and the terrible consequences of their fruitless policies on the country. Thus, they have split into factions among themselves. Those who got the first chance to secure wealth took the opportunity. These ones are now nervous and panicking, anticipating the inevitable demonstrations and mass uprisings. Out of fear, they are foolishly trying to destroy the genuine historical records and substitute false ones.

The Case of Dr Thar Hla

The case of Dr Thar Hla is one example of this. To justify their own useless and corrupted policies of closing the universities, the SPDC are desperately trying to tear out from the pages of History the actual words Dr Thar Hla spoke concerning the value of Education to the country. So we must remind them of what they want to forget.After the assassination of General Aung San in 1947, and when the ethnic groups had finally been excluded from negotiations about the new government, the 1949 Karen revolution against the AFPFL began at Insein, near Rangoon University. U Nu and and his government wanted to close down the University, claiming that it was too risky for the students to be near the battle with the Karen rebels. At that time, Dr Thar Hla was a member of the University Council, as well as Head Professor at the University. Dr Thar Hla argued that the university ought not to be closed down. It would be a great mistake to do so, he claimed, as there would be no way to recover the value of

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR the education lost to the nation. The Professor explained about his experience in Britain during the War with Hitler. The British had done all they could to keep the education system going on during the battles. They said that, even if they should win the war, to close the schools would severely damage the country. To stop teaching made no sense, and would bring great destruction of the people?s morale. Finally, Dr Thar Hla said, No rebel will shoot at the students in the University. I dare to stand guarantee for that.? On hearing these words, the members of the U Nu government felt a great pain in their hearts, as if they had received a strong and unexpected blow. Indeed, the rebels never did shoot at the students. But later, in the years under the Ne Win BSPP military dictatorship and its offspring SLORC and SPDC, the Burmese Army itself tortured, killed, and blew up with mines hundreds and thousands of students.

Win The Black Deeds of Ne Wins BSPP

Because of the present fascist government, it is necessary, once again, for those of us who remember, to recite the history of the Burmese student movement. Generation after generation the students have taken dramatic action in the cause of truth and freedom. In 1920, the students, without a student union, conducted mass demonstrations against the British colonial system, uniting on the basis of their common understanding only. On September 20th, 1930, they agreed, in the gymnasium of Rangoon University, to form the University Students Union. During the years 1935-36, the All-Burma Students Union was also born. These two student unions always took appropriate actions in the noble fight against colonialism and for freedom and our national liberty. After Ne Win seized power in 1962, he began to put an end to the University Council. On May 11th, he dismissed Head Professor Dr Thar Hla. On May 17th, he formed a new University Council, consisting of army cronies Brigadier Than Pe, Brigadier San Tu, Colonel Than Sein, Colonel Tin Soe. As the Head Professor of the University, he appointed crony U Kar, who had been the Education Minister in 1958 during U Nu?s caretaker government.

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR

So great was Ne Wins fear of education that he then proceeded to close down the private schools. He also rejected the high school final examination in Rangoon Division, so graduates could no longer find employment easily. Finally, he declared severe disciplinary measures against the university students. On July 3rd, the students demonstrated, demanding to keep the student hostels free of Ne Win?s control. On July 6th, the Revolutionary Council military dictatorship replied by creating the University Senate, staffed it with Ne Win cronies, and then chose new Committee Members for the student hostels. On July 7th, the university students held a meeting in response to the government?s actions, and demonstrated in the university compound. Such a continuing expression of dissent was intolerable for Ne Win. A police security group came to scatter the demonstrators with the tear gas, and arrested the All-Burma Students Union Chairman, Ko Thet, as well as the University Students Union Chairman, Ko Swe Lay.

Dictator Gen. Ne Win Slaughters Unarmed Burmese Youth

Then the abominations began. At about 5:00 pm, two army trucks came into the University compound. The soldiers jumped out and began shooting down the students. Ne Win?s crony General Sein Lwin, who titled himself The Lion, led this disgraceful terrorist operation against the unarmed, innocent students. Infantry Unit #4 was given the order to shoot. For three minutes, all you could hear was shooting, shouting, screaming, glass breaking, people running, bullets hitting the wall, and the wounded students moaning, as if the world was on fire. Other students heard the gunfire and started to run away, but the soldiers started shooting again, until the dead bodies began to pile up around the compound. Thus, the helpless Burmese students, running for their lives,

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR were grudgingly and cruelly shot down by their own army. Even at the great battle in front lines of war, those soldiers could not see such a pile of dead and wounded enemies. In this case, about 200 students died. But the government, ashamed, announced that only 15 students had died, with 27 wounded. On July 8th, to be sure that the students had gotten the message, the army also blew up the Student Union Building. It came down with a loud explosion of army mines. Along with the building, Ko Kyaw Win of Myaung Mya, who had been hiding himself in the building, died. When the University was finally reopened, the students who lost arms or legs, who were shot in the face or in the stomach, arrived at school with bandages still covering their wounds. Later these students were sent to other universities, and we lost contact with many of them. Some died from their wounds. The rest of the students soon regrouped, and they erected a temporary student union building, a big wooden hut. In memory and in honor of the But in hundreds of students who died, they also put up a stone pillar, 2.0 meters in length and 1.6 meters in breadth, ?The Pillar of the Hundreds?. going civil war, Ne Win deployed the army again. This time he destroyed both the temporary student union building, as well as ?The Pillar of the Hundreds?. Concerning the exploding of the Student Union Building, Ne Win tried to blame his officer Aung Gyi. But at the second attack to destroy the temporary student union building, Aung Gyi was not even in his unit. Dropping all pretense, Ne Win, who had ordered the first shooting of unarmed students, now made his famous speech to the students: If you try to cause conflict, we are ready to counter you, a dagger for a dagger, a spear for a spear. Moreover, I am going to use the army. They will not shoot above you, but directly at you. Thus spoke the bloodthirsty Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, General Ne Win, to the unarmed Burmese youth. November 1963, during another student demonstration for an end to the on-

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The Flag of the Fighting Peacock will Always be Flying

This is the heritage Ne Win has given to the SPDC today. When the 8/8/88 uprising occurred, the army again killed monks, students, and parents by the thousands, and put others into jails for many years. Some will be there forever. Whom will we blame? In the end, we will blame that cold-blooded killer, the cunning Khin Nyunt. This is certain. The wheel that turns around will reach its inevitable political conclusion. You can still hear the echoing shouts and cries of those students, parents, And monks . You can still see the letters written with blood on the walls of the jails. In the uprising at the U Thant funeral (1973), and in the uprising at the Hmine Centennial (1976), many demonstrating students were thrown into the jail. Two brothers, beaten bloody by the jailer and staffs, were shackled together. On the walls of their cell, using the blood running down from their heads, they wrote, ?The evil spirit of Fascism must die,and We shall never give up. They believed in the revolution, and they knew that the people would win. If you peel back the new tar road, And examine what lies beneath, You will find the true history Written in blood on the earth, And you will know Why they died.? This poem by writer Saya Maung Lay Aung is in honor of student leader Bo Aung Gyaw, who died at the hands of the military police. And his mother cried, saying, Aung Gyaw, I will never have another son like you. But now there are many sons like Bo Aung Gyaw, Ko Aung San, Ko Ba Heing, Ko Hla Shwe. They will never die. You can cut their bodies into pieces, but you can

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DICTATOR GENERAL NE WIN DESTROYED STUDENTS UNION BUILDING IN YANGON, MYANMAR never kill their revolutionary spirit. There are many Min Ko Naings and Moe Thee Zones to lead the forces, and we go on fighting without dismay. The flag of the Fighting Peacock will always be flying. The army dictatorship is an unjust, deceitful, cunning, and crooked family. They will not have a good ending. Their oppressive power will surely fall Upon their own shoulders. Sooner or later, the bloody and stinky shadows will Exact a terrible retribution upon them.

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