U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, asked what can be expected by the people of Myanmar from the UN Security Council at a UN meeting on May 3.
According to the report of May 3 of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), 3,459 people were killed by the military council. The priceless human life is the cheapest like the lives of the people of Myanmar are not human lives.
On April 11, at around 7:30 a.m., the military’s jet fighter and helicopter which are the death messengers arrived at Pazigyi village, Kanbalu Township, and stubbornly took the lives of nearly 200 people, ranging in age from 6 months to 76 years old, within a short period of time.
On December 21, 2021, the UN Security Council’s Resolution-2669 on Myanmar came out, demanding an immediate end to the violence, but the Military Council defended the Security Council’s resolution by committing massacre.
How did the Security Council respond to the Pazigyi village massacre? It could not issue even a statement expressing regret for those who were killed, which is too soft way in diplomatic affair.
Whatever, Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun, who is responsible for the request, said on May 3 that the Security Council should clearly protect Myanmar people from killing their lives and that it is time for the Security Council to take effective action against the inhumane killings of civilians by the military council.
However, it is difficult to even dream of another step by the Security Council on the Myanmar issue, according to prolonging support of the military council by some of the permanent members of the UN Security Council.
In such a situation, what can the people of Burma expect from ASEAN?
The review and 15 decisions of the ASEAN leaders on the implementation of the five point-consensus issued by the ASEAN Summit on November 11, 2022, are missing from this year. The main point of the 15 decisions is the implementation of the ASEAN’s five point-consensus during a limited time, and they want to put pressure on the military council that has not implemented the five point-consensus at all.
However, till now, even the ASEAN’s summit decision on Myanmar has not reached the stage of discussion to implement the time-limit plan.
Retno Marsudi, the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, who is the ASEAN Alternate Chairperson, said that during the past 4 months, the National Unity Government, ethnic armed forces, Myanmar’s neighbors India, Thailand, and China, as well as international organizations, have been engaged in at least 60 times. However, to this day, there is no result for Myanmar affairs, and even today, the ASEAN’s five point-consensus on Myanmar cannot move forward from zero condition.
If looking at the international community’s support for Myanmar, it is satisfactory, but only applause for the spring revolution is heard and there is no effective support for revolution. In such a situation, the Chinese government shaking friendly hands with the military council is questionable for the people of Myanmar.
In other words, the Spring Revolution means relying on ourselves, rowing with our own hands, climbing on our own effort, setting sails on our own canvas, and reaching a journey ahead of the Spring Revolution. The journey ahead of the spring revolution must continue to cross the stormy sea only through the strength of the Myanmar people’s struggle effort.
We need not to imagine for the spring revolution. We need not to have huge hopes from the international community on Myanmar affairs. The spring revolution is the blood and sweat of our people like a tree that ambitiously took root and survived from the stone square.
MPA believes that only the unrelenting spirit and fighting alarums of our people against the military dictators can lead towards the victory of the Spring Revolutionary we want.