I am one of the ordinary people. I am complacent about my lifestyle: leading a peaceful life with my private business. I read, listen to the radio, and watch TV regularly on account of my habit of learning internal and international affairs. So, I somewhat keep in touch with what is going on at home, and in the world.I have noticed that these days, BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB are stepping up their broadcasts designed to break up the Tatmadaw. Besides, they have begun to drive a wedge among the members of the Myanmar Police Force. The nearer the 2010 election is drawing, the more the internal axe-handles in complicity with certain foreign radio stations air a wide variety of fabricated stories with the intention of disrupting the 2010 election, peace, stability and national development. I believe that has posed a grave danger to the nation and the people. Therefore, I feel I have come under a responsibility to write this article in order that such groundless news stories will come to the light of the people.

In the meantime, they are found desperate to unsettle the talks to transform the peace groups into border guard forces for lasting, peace, by airing complete fabrications. In like manner, they are airing news stories on political prisoners, human rights, freedom of press, and affairs of anti-government political parties very regularly and repeatedly. The theme of their broadcasts remains unchanged: the government is bad; the nation and the people are living below the poverty line; and the government is oppressing a certain political party.

Here, I notice that there is no element of truth in their broadcasts about the government. Apparently, why they are doing so is nothing more than deceiving the people into misunderstanding the government, discouraging the people, and creating public panic. With great relish, they are entertaining and adding exaggerations to the stories provided by internal axe-handles in spite of their knowledge that the stories are baseless. In my opinion, they are pursuing a long-term plot to neo-colonize our country.

To be honest, those story-teller radio stations are not happy with the people leading a peaceful life with a prosperous future. They are anxious to make the people stay in a state of panic under doubts; create public outrage, stemming from crises; to weaken and eliminate the Tatmadaw which, in collaboration with the people, guards the motherland against dangers; to see the people taking to the streets under the leadership of some people who rely on external elements, and even the nation facing an 88 unrest-like incident. So, the people are to notice the fact that behind their broadcasts are clever schemes to achieve their goals and serve their own interests.

Now, internal axe-handles and certain foreign radio stations are trying to hinder the 2010 election. It has become clear that they are speeding up their efforts to disrupt the important turning point of the nation and the people. Only if they can disrupt the election will it be possible for them to keep their hopes alive. So, they seem determined to make the election unsuccessful. The people can visualize easily the point that the closer the election is to its course the greater attempts they will make.

If my memory serves me correct such storytelling radio stations as BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB have never ever aired authentic news stories. To be frank, they have hardly stood the side of the truth since 1988. The true stories they have aired in the period are not associated with Myanmar affairs, such as news stories about other countries, and Champions League football. The news stories on Myanmar affairs they have aired up to now are all false. The people are well convinced of that point.

In general, news is a true, interesting story. Purported and made-up news stories are black ones. I have learnt that black journalism is “reporting fabricated news to mislead the people”, and disinformation is “reporting made-up stories, instead of true stories”. According to my review, the 1988 unrest was completely due to story-telling radio stations such as BBC and VOA with black journalism and misinformation in airing their news stories about Myanmar.

Among the foreign correspondents, BBC’s Christopher Gunness could rock our country most. BBC and he used black journalism and misinformation methods to the best of their ability to ravage the country. I believe there are so many profound evidences that support that point, and it has come to the knowledge of the majority of the people.

In fact, the 88 unrest was merely a political game well organized by BBC and Christopher Gunness. Many people placed too much reliance on, and danced to the broadcasts of BBC and Christopher Gunness, and in the end the unrest grew into the 88 unrest. Thus, I would say that BBC and Christopher Gunness killed a great number of innocent civilians and destroyed a great deal of public property, without using any weapons.

While the unrest was gathering momentum, Christopher Gunness conducted a made-up interview to fuel the riots of mobs. The broadcasts about the interview are featured in detail in the book “Skyful of lies of, BBC, VOA, AIR Broadcasts, and rubettals Against Them”. The truth is that on 28 July 1988, BBC correspondent Christopher Gunness conspired an interview in collusion with Nay Min, Htay Aung, Htay Kywe, and Ko Ko Latt who claimed themselves as 88 generation students. They deceived and took student Ma Aye Nyein Thu of Kamayut Township, who at that time was serving as a voluntary Red Cross member at Yangon General Hospital, to Sangyoung and introduced her to Christopher Gunness. Then, they pressured her to play a role in the question and answer programme as they had already planned.

So, she had to comply with their wish, saying in the interview that she was a student, and was put behind bars in Insein Jail; and that there other female students and her were raped by jail warders. The well-planned interview was aired on the evening of 6 August 1988 by BBC. The interview was so effective that the mobs out of control, thus culminating in the 8-8-88 unrest, which absolutely tarnished the image of the nation. It is, therefore, fair to say that the 1988 mass protest was completely due to the fabrications manufactured by internal axe-handles and certain foreign radio stations to disgrace Myanmar, and bring about untold miseries to the nation and the people.

Translation: MS