Bo Gyoke Aung San's Dictums

Bo Gyoke Aung San's Dictums
07 July 2011

Day 1: Bo Gyoke Aung San: We can move mountains (6 July)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums from today until 19 July 2011. So then, these are the tasks before all of us. I say then to you: come and let us do them and achieve them, for it is in our power to make or mar our destiny. Above all, have no doubt about your creative power which can move mountains and even Heaven. And what Heaven on this earth can stand before the united will and wisdom of our people conscious of their strength and power and harnessing it firmly to the chariot wheels of history? We are out for ordered progress and we will, with your hearty co-operation, win our freedom peacefully and speedily. (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights. For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/

Day 2: The active support and co-operation of a whole people needed for victory! (Bo Gyoke Aung San) (7 July)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums from today until 19 July 2011.

But then victory is not yet. We have still an arduous way to traverse before we reach our goal. And you want me to pilot you safely to that journey’s end! I cannot thank you easily for this gesture of trust and confidence you have reposed in me. I must tell you quite frankly from the outset that I cannot dangle any promise of speedy results or sudden windfall of millennium before you. No man, however great, can alone set the wheels of history in motion, unless he has the active support and co-operation of a whole people. (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/

Day 3: The welfare of all people of Burma is my life's mission (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums until 19 July 2011.

I have come here at your bidding and I am to do so. The welfare of all people of this country irrespective of race or religion has always been the one purpose that I have set out to fulfil. In fact it is my life's mission. (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/

Day 4: A nationality cannot confine to the narrow bounds of race or religion (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums until 19 July 2011.

Bo Gyoke Aung San's Dictums Day (4)

Nowadays, all the world over, we cannot confine the definition of a nationality to the narrow bounds of race, religion, etc. Nations are extending the rights of their respective communities even to others who may not belong to them except by their mere residence amongst them and their determination to live and be with them. (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/

Day 5: We have no cause to become enemies either with India or China now or in the foreseeable future! (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums until 19 July 2011, Burma Martyrs Day.

It is also pointed out that Burma lying as it does between the two biggest countries on earth is liable to be made a pawn frequently in the game of international politics. We have no cause to become enemies either with India or China now or in the foreseeable future. As such any bogey raised on account of the juxtaposition of our country with the two biggest countries in the World is only an academic one. It may be that situated as we are adjoining one another, there may be some minor differences on local issues from time to time, but this should not affect our fundamental interrelations to any great extent.

(Bo Gyoke Aung San)

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/

Day 6:It is our inherent right of people to revolt against any and every form of tyranny! (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums until 19 July 2011, Burma Martyrs Day.

Bo Gyoke Aung San's Dictums Day (6)

For is it not the inherent right of any people anywhere in the world to strive to win their own freedom, and have they not the right to revolt against any and every form of tyranny, oppression and exploitation, foreign as well as domestic?

No nation has the right to rule another nation, and if any oppressed nation attempts to overthrow their oppressors, why should that act be considered treasonable or traitorous?

When we did the same sort of thing in our country, both in regard to the British imperialist rule and Japanese Fascist domination, we feel thoroughly justified to have taken such courses, and we pride ourselves for such deeds. (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

Bogyoke Aung San is the Burma's National Father as well as Burma's Independence Architect. He is the Father of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who is the Leader of the Non-Violent Movement Around the World.

All the people of Burma love Bo Gyoke Aung San led leaders of Burma but there are a few pro-colonialists who didn’t like Bo Gyoke Aung San and leaders.

On July 19, 1947 at approximately 10:37am, Burma Standard Time, several of Burma's independence leaders were gunned down by the pro-colonialists while they were holding a cabinet meeting at “The Secretariat” office in down-town Rangoon.

The assassinated cabinet members were Bo Gyoke (General) Aung San, Thakin Mya, Dedoke U Ba Cho, U Razak, U Ba Win, Mahn Ba Khaing, Mai Pong Sawphwa Sao San Htun. Cabinet secretary U Ohn Maung and a bodyguard called Maung Htwe were also killed in the shooting.

Since then on July 19, the Burma Martyrs' Day is observed to commemorate Bo Gyoke Aung San and six other independence leaders who were assassinated on that day in 1947.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/

Day 7: Work, Action, & Self-Reliance are timeless golden rule for SUCCESS ! (Bo Gyoke Aung San)

In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums until 19 July 2011, Burma Martyrs Day.

Bo Gyoke Aung San's Dictums Day (7)

Work, work, work, action, action, action, self-reliance, self-reliance, self-reliance. This is the stern, simple golden rule of timeless truth for any success that man makes. (Bo Gyoke Aung San) Bogyoke Aung San is the Burma's National Father as well as Burma's Independence Architect. He is the Father of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who is the Leader of the Non-Violent Movement Around the World.

All the people of Burma love Bo Gyoke Aung San led leaders of Burma but there are a few pro-colonialists who didn’t like Bo Gyoke Aung San and leaders.

On July 19, 1947 at approximately 10:37am, Burma Standard Time, several of Burma's independence leaders were gunned down by the pro-colonialists while they were holding a cabinet meeting at “The Secretariat” office in down-town Rangoon.

The assassinated cabinet members were Bo Gyoke (General) Aung San, Thakin Mya, Dedoke U Ba Cho, U Razak, U Ba Win, Mahn Ba Khaing, Mai Pong Sawphwa Sao San Htun. Cabinet secretary U Ohn Maung and a bodyguard called Maung Htwe were also killed in the shooting.

Since then on July 19, the Burma Martyrs' Day is observed to commemorate Bo Gyoke Aung San and six other independence leaders who were assassinated on that day in 1947.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/