Revolution towards Reconciliation, Aung San Suu Kyi

I was happy to read the following words from NYTimes.

“I’ve never said I want them to be brought into the international court,” she said. “I don’t think there is any solid reason for the generals to fear for their safety. We are not after them personally. I certainly do not wish them ill.”

The excerpts of interview;

She said her use of the term “revolution” was justified because, “I think of evolution as imperceptible change, very, very slowly, and I think of revolution as significant change. I say this because we are in need of significant change.”

The change she had in mind, she said, was “a change for the better from the point of view of human rights and democratic institutions.”

But she said that unlike some of her supporters in the West, she did not see regime change as a goal. “What we want is value change,” she said. “Regime change can be temporary, but value change is a long-term business. We want the values in our country to be changed. We want a sound foundation for change.

“Even if there’s regime change, if these basic values have not changed, then one regime change can lead to another regime change and so on and so on.”

I fully support her statement as a Burmese citizen who love to see the suffering of our people  end forever.But as she rightly pointed out the fact that even there is the change of regime, the people will be the same as quite a significant number of Burmese, doing party politics( both inside and outside of the country) are also corrupt, and shifting alliance with political climate.

We have seen this during 1988 uprising. Most of the fence sitters aligned with pro democracy movement,  when they sensed the wind of victory on the people’s side. After Military coup, the same people went back to the same totalitarian system that lasted another 22 years without change.

Having said that, I am not proposing innocence of Army Generals here, but by looking at  stagnation of politics in Burma, only way to proceed is nothing but national reconciliation with all parties concerned.

The best thing for all of us to me as ordinary citizen, is to listen what she says, and to support what she propose.Of course, she will propose something only after careful discussion with sincere leaders of Burma. Don’t ask me who are they? She knows who are the sincere people and who are hypocrites very well.

I always remember a friend of mine living in Burma once bitterly said, ” It is easy for all of you to ask us to do this do that from the place of comfort.But for us first thing come to our mind  in the morning is how to survive that day..”

As She said evolution is slow and revolution is fast and significant. But revolution without lost of live is possible only under the leadership of Aung San suu Kyi, for the good sake of those suffering social injustice for  five decades.

Sit Mone