GRAPE VINE

Burma and China will fall to people's power

By Cherry Yap - BANGKOK
Bangkok Post - Dec 22, 2000.
Letters to Editor

Having read Samuel Wu's and BK Sen's letterws ["Don't bow to Chinese threats of aggression" and "Burmese junta only buying time", The Nation, December 22], I, as a Hong Kong democrat, would like to encourage and call upon all people who support democracy to fight against the dictators.

Although the Chinese and Burmese anti-democacy alliance is huge and their oppressive military forces are deadly, time and humanity are on our side. Let's be optimistic and firm, because in the twenty-first century there will be no room for dictators.

Obscurant policy is doomed to fail. Economic and technological developments will only help oppressed people get wiser and more powerful. The dictators can either adapt or die a slow death like the Chinese Communist Party, or stubbornly resist till a sudden death like the Burmese military junta.

No matter if it is in China or Burma, people's power is unstoppable, and democracy will make its way.