Nevertheless, the whole truth was discovered some time thereafter. After the unrest, Aye Nyein Thu admitted with repentence that she just did as asked by Christopher Gunness, Htay Kywe and Ko Ko Latt; that she was neither jailed nor raped; and that she made a silly mistake under the persuasion and pressure of the group of the axe-handles.Attempt to break up the Tatmadaw has been going on on a large scale since the 1988 unrest. It seems to me that the axe-handles and those foreign radio stations are fully committed to their scheme of breaking up the Tatmadaw with whatever ways and means they have sought, because they are well convinced of the fact that they will be in no position to exploit the nation and the people so long as the armed forces remain cohesive and strong. That is why they stick to their plot of breaking up the Tatmadaw. It has been over a couple of decades or since 1988. In the end, the good shall triumph over the evil. The people of us notice that none of their attempts has come to fruition, whereas the Tatmadaw is getting more and more united and strong and strengthened.

As far as I remember, broadcasts on announcements intended to break up the Tatmadaw were aired repeatedly on 12 September 1988. Fake announcements with fake signatures were rampant around the nation. They said that an interim government had to be formed by 1 pm on 13 September 1988, or the Air Force would launch air strikes, and the Navy had set its targets at many certain places; and that the Tatmadaw had collapsed into pieces. Actually, such announcements are very destructive, and that reflects their selfishness. Under the negative impact of the announcements, the majority of Yangon dwellers came to be in a state of panic, and they placed some Tatmadaw members in a dilemma, thus accounting for to how much extent their plot was effective.

Today, whether those announcements are true or not has been clear to all. However, at that time, many people withstood all the stresses and strains caused by the announcements. So, an evening TV news on rebuttal was announced by Myanma Radio and Television that the announcements were fake ones in order to allay anxiety of the people. In addition, copies of letters were dropped from Tatmadaw aircraft in order that the people and Tatmadaw members would come to know the truth. Yet, some artless Tatmadaw members fell into the snare of the announcements, and took the wrong path after turning their back to the Tatmadaw. That was a costly lesson. The number of such soldiers was very small. The whole Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air Force) showed its consolidated unity and managed to save the nation that was at that time standing on the edge of the abyss.

Since 1988, such story-telling foreign radio stations as BBC, VOA, RFA and DVB have manufactured fabrications one after another with the intention of causing wholesale death and destruction to the nation and the people. They cling on to their subversive plots, airing distorted news, news based on rumours, and invented news stories day in, day out. In fact, Western neo-colonialists heavily aid and abet those radio stations and give directions to absconders, perpetrators and axe-handles from their targeted countries to harm their mother countries concerned, calling them as democracy activists. The cohorts and axe-handles under the influence of the neo-colonists are too naïve to notice that their acts harm none except them and their country. Therefore, they and such foreign radio stations work hand in glove.

The internal West-looking groups provide the West Bloc radio stations with exaggerated news stories in abundance based on personal dissatisfactions, grudges associated with political issues, and impossible hopes for their party to come to power. Those radio stations fail to honour the code of press ethic by exaggerating the provided news stories to contribute towards their neocolonialism at the expense of the interests of any other country. The Western radio stations can constantly give the people a real earful about fabricated news stories as they keep in touch with the West-looking axe-handles. They air groundless broadcasts at will, taking full advantage of the tool of the media, and showing total disregard for the code of press ethic. Personally, they are like a fool with a gun.

As to their objectives and acts, Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan in a press conference said that today the government has to seek the most appropriate ways and means in line with the objective conditions in the interest of the nation and the people; and that but, pessimists at home and from abroad, those encouraging subversive acts, and some foreign media groups that are behind their plots are constantly entertaining rumours, and airing distorted news, and news stories designed to drive a wedge among the people, news stories to persuade the people to take to the streets, and misinformed stories with the intention of undermining the State stability and peace, national unity, creating public panic, misleading the people, and stirring up mass protests. What he said is totally right, and reflects the nature of the West radio stations.

The made-up stories they have aired since 1988 are uncountable. A news story they aired is still fresh in my mind that they exploited the situations and invented Tadani (red bridge) affairs, regarding the event in which security forces prevented student protesters at Tadabyu (White Bridge) on the embankment of Inya Lake on 16 March 1988. In reality, none of the students fell in the event, but they aired as if many of them were killed, describing the protest as Tadani Affairs. Similarly, after the Tatmadaw had assumed State responsibilities, some persons in the country and certain foreign radio stations masterminded a plot to force student protesters to go underground, which is still in the mind of the people. Surely, the painful memories are always with the students who faced untold miseries there and their parents in their life.

Those foreign radio stations are, indeed, media enterprises doing media services. So, they have to follow the code of press ethic strictly. Instead, they have violated the code of press ethic so many times that they are merely black media. Therefore, they are brazen enough to air such harmful, groundless news stories.

In my opinion, they should not manufacture a fabrication about a person. In spite of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in good health, BBC and VOA in their broadcasts have said on purpose so many times that she is not in good health; that they are deeply concerned over her health, and she does not have access to good health care. Accordingly, the government has to occasionally issue news in order to get rid of the people’s concerns and doubts.

Again on 23 August 2005, BBC aired an evening news story, which posed grave danger to the nation, which was related to the Head of the State and the nation. To make things worse, they added some comments to the news. At that time, the Head of State was doing his duty in good health. Although they knew that well, they aired unreliable, baseless news story deliberately.

Translation: MS