Thai has destroyed their own country and is starting to destroy ours now!!! They have lost nature, culture and morality in the name of big smooth road, big buildings and factories accruing large number of addicts, prostitution and pervasive every day human right abuse by every day common people like factory owners, boat owners and brothel owners.

Sit-Tut and their circle of people are nothing but thieves and robbers selling out Burmese public land, coast and resources and call themselves shamelessly “Business men”. Remember next time you want to go to soccer with Zaw Zaw, he is a THIEF.

Unfortunately so-called opposition seems to have no idea either. Everybody is desperate to get some money. The only way they can think of is to get it of the foreigners via IMF, WB and ADB and give them free reign to take away resources, use unregulated manual labour, build ports, rails, roads, hotels, resorts and associated prostitution, dam the rivers. There surely is no call for preservation of the nature.

This “Money, Money, Money” and lack of understanding of current precious possession like century-old culture, peaceful tradition and self denial will invite flashy cars, big buildings, junkies and callous, demoralised immoral populace as already seen as gangs going around in Rangoon killing people in day light. These things will multiply with each “Port”, each rail track and each factory. But everybody seems dead set for it. Enjoy the decadence to come.

In this issue, I would like to highlight about the two coal-fired power plants in Tavoy Project recently initiated by Ital Thai Development with Ratchaburi Power Co and PTT. The project with Ratchaburi Power Co was previously attempted near Thailand Gulf but protested by the local community because of its pollution. Thailand has a bitter experience with coal-fired plant at Mae Moh area in Lampang Province. They just want to move it to Myanmar. That plant is planned to use coal to be imported from Indonesia and/or Australia. Another point is that Myanmar has abundant gas around the same area from Martaban (Mottama) Gulf. Why don’t they want to use clean gas instead of dirty coal? Coal can affect the community in storage as well as by firing. The carbon gas will stay still above our sky for some time. They intend to use the electricity for the Tavoy (Dawei) Project but plan to use any surplus for Thailand.
Another plant to be constructed with PTT is intended to provide electricity to Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). They will pollute the area around Maungmagan Beach a very famous and beautiful place in Myanmar so that Thailand can enjoy electricity probability at low cost and some profit.
I’m wondering if Thailand authorities and Myanmar authorities deeply know about these projects and their terrible effects. These plants should be stopped from the beginning, otherwise we have to pay very high costs in both sides of the border.
I want to appeal to environmentalists to look after this matter and take necessary actions. If not, we will leave a regrettable legacy to our children and children’s children.
Recently, I noticed the movements from Thailand side, especially Ital Thai chief’s visit to Myanmar Power Minister and forthcoming visit of Thai PM to Myanmar to meet the President as well as Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Be prepared! Save our county!

Burma currently makes money by selling largest amount of raw and refined opium and methamphatemine using raw materials from China and India. The proceeds are reinvested in legitimate businesses – banks, hospitals, import- export companies in Burma lowland mainly in big cities, Rangoon and Mandalay.

Another real foreign currency earner is simply selling resources including gems which are at the whim of the “Sit-tut”.

The taxes of the imported consumer goods and the export of live animals, human- male, female all ages, and agricultural produces make the third income.

Most of the income are squandered on military hardware and maintaining large army and waging wars which also disturb production.

By keeping every thing as it is and getting money from foreigners under any guise, one relinquish the ability to dictate what is in one’s best interest. The only visible difference will be further polarisation of have’s and have-nots’.

ADB and WB loans would be for regional consumer enhancement which will benefit the multinational conglomerate and WILL help sort out the monetary crises in Europe and pending crisis in the States. Simply- rails, ports and roads as well as all forms of energy production, raw material extraction and unregulated, cheap manual labour.

There surely wll be more people employed. More people wll be as rich as Tayza or more.

But that can happen only in devastated land ( go and see area around north of Shan State for an example, the elephants of the Kachinland are now replaced by bulldozers already) with unrecognazable social disruption – a father would need an appointment to see a son- and moral decay which is easy to se in Thailand where primary school teachers sell yaba to their own students.

First thing is not to have ports and factories and IPads. First thing is to stop killing each other. These two cannot happen the same time.

You wil be amazed if we really care for each other how wonderful life would be without…