One-sded wiki article on NW coup 3-2-1962 --Military's so-called "culture"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Burmese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

For one thing, it treats 1988 as a real change of govt., not a name change for still existing junta.

For another, it quotes ONLY pro-junta infamous apologists, Callahan, R Taylor, AT and AT.

Today is junta's anniversary which they renamed Resistance Day, in reference to resistance against Japanese at end of WWII.

I just read that alleged war criminal Dr Naing Aung (ungraduated former medical student, 1988: ABSDF), told Phil Thornton, he did not even know resistance under Aung San (ASSK's father) ended "bc of WWII"

Thornton in his book All Wars are Dirty, also wrote that Naing Aung fortified himself with whiskey, drank heavily and midway in the long interview (taped and with notes) got up to throw up.

NA said he "watched" the beheadings and that the beheadings were not clean, in that vertabrae were not completely severed.

In 2012 a whole lot of books and blog posts emerged in which survivors, including artist Htein Lin, described what they went through.

The perpetrators allegedly brutally tortured and gang raped victims.

I spoke with the woman survivor now based in Australia but she told me via FB that it was too painful for her to write about it.

Her uncle in the KIA (Kachin Independence Army) came and literally pulled her from the torture death pit, after he saw a photo of her and recognized his niece.

The atrocities have been graphically described by survivors.

Some parents also went to visit them in Pajau, no man's land between China and Burma in NE.

It illustrates how the military's so-called "culture" is so insidious with glorification of the "hero" inside Burma.

One of my first cousin's sons went to war as his father did, and came back with bullet wound in his brain, but is still alive, I don't know his mental condition.

Late father was in MIS (Military Intelligence Service) and mother used to work in War Office, where they met.

Many stories,

km

3-2-2019