Shan Dai Advocacy

Reality in a Letter

August 4, 2007 on 3:02 am | In General |

Dear Prayer Partners for the Shan Dai,
The following letter offers sober insight to serous needs for the Shan of Burma. Please consider reading and from it much can be taken to our Lord in prayer.
Thank you.

To,
His Excellency Mr. Wen Jiabao
Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China
Dear Sir,
I am writing not as a politician, nor as a member of any political organisation but as an ordinary citizen of the world. I am a Tai/Dai (Shan) who is now living in the UK.
I would like to bring to your attention that since 1962 until the present day the peoples of Burma have been living in fear and terror. There has been relocation of villagers, confiscation of farmlands, murder, gang rape of women and girls, extrajudicial killings, imprisonment and other heinous crimes committed by the two military regimes against the ordinary citizens especially the non-Burman ethnic nationals.
I would like you to please imagine how a mother would feel when her son or daughter is the victim of such treatment: she is sorrow stricken especially when she has tried to bring up the child with love and care until he or she reaches adulthood. Her basic instinct is to love, nourish, provide warm clothing and shelter for her child. She also tries to teach her child to be a decent citizen and to understand right and wrong, and to respect the law of the land.
You as a Prime Minister, Sir are so much wiser than I am but unlike me when engaging with foreign governments your decisions are based mainly on politics and economy. I would therefore like to make a fervent plea to you when dealing with the Burmese military you would please consider the millions of citizens in Burma who have suffered for more than four decades: many have had the experience of fathers, mothers and relatives being, imprisoned, raped, murdered, executed and their homes and lands confiscated.
Looking back in history China has one of the oldest civilisations in the world; there had been Great Leaders and Philosophers, as well as many geniuses in the fields of inventions and medicines. All the past and present that make up China is something very admirable and an envy of the world.
In recent years, politically and economically China has progressed by leaps and bounds. I am sure China will go far and I have hopes that China will be a good example to all countries, especially those of Asia not only in the progress of economy and politics but also in the progress of mankind. As a Prime Minister of a great nation we have faith and hope that you adopt amongst your other policies a policy to relieve the suffering of all citizens of the world.
As you well know from your experience with the Dais in China, the Tais in the Shan State are also peace loving people who wish to live in harmony with their own as well as other societies.
China is the only country that can make the Generals of Burma see sense and to act responsibly, humanely and ethically, and to bring about the reconciliation of all the different ethnic nationals in Burma.
Respectfully yours,
Sao Noan Oo