Personnel of the Peoples' Armed Forces, please follow the Example of Battalion 33 for the sake of the People, the Culture and the Sasana (Buddhist Religion)


Now is the time to choose your destiny. The Military junta has reached its dusk. They are even demolishing the Buddhist religion as an enemy in order to cling on to power. The pools of blood in Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery depicts clearly the depths the junta are prepared to lower themselves. Even more disturbing is the news that all the monks, without exception, who were captured from that monastery were later murdered.

Who has committed this atrocity? And why? These are questions that every person who loves Burma, her culture and her religion, should be asking. The majority of us Burmese people have been brought up to always pay respect to the Buddha, the Dhamma (the Teachings of the Buddha) and the Sangha (The Religious Community of the Buddha, i.e. The Order of the Buddhist Monks).

From the Sangha we receive the Teachings of the Lord Buddha and in line with this Teaching, the Sangha have moulded our culture. Insulting the Sangha is tantamount to insulting the Buddha; tantamount to insulting our culture and tantamount to insulting the country itself.

The Military junta is insulting everyone now. Unjust orders must not be obeyed. It is no longer meaningful to say that you had to shoot because you were ordered to. There is no excuse for insulting the Burmese people and the Buddhist religion. It is only through your own action that you will be able to extract yourself from this unjust situation.

In the struggle between justice and injustice, all civilised people will side with justice. Battalion 33 has done just that by laying down their arms in front of the monks in Mandalay and showing their obeisance and respect to them. By doing so, they have extricated themselves from the gang of injustice. This act will be applauded by people and deities alike, and shall go down in the annals of our history.

Man is a civilised animal. Throughout the history of Mankind, dictators have tried to gain absolute power using the most uncivilised means. And they may succeed for a while. However, injustice will always lose eventually. Why? It is because people who desire justice and who hate injustice will appear from all corners, unite and overpower the unjust. Justice will always attain the upper ground and injustice will surely come to their knees.

Pho Nyo