NMSP President Urges for the reestablishment of Monland

(Reported by MUL: May 8, 2007)

          MNSP President, Nai Htaw Mon

  Memorial Ceremony in Weagka, Sankhlaburi

Kaowao: Sangkhlaburi -- In the opening speech given by Nai Htaw Mon, he urged the participants that even though all of the Mon people regret for the enormous loss of their nation, women, children and Buddhist monks during genocide committed by Burman king U Aung Ze Ya (Alaungphaya) during 250 years ago, but they must keep movement with consistent endeavor until the Mons can re‐establish their nation or to achieve the rights to self determination again.

He said the people even lost their nation about 200 years in the past during the Burman king, Anoratha annexed Thaton Mon Kingdom in A. D. 11th Century, but the Mons can re‐establish their kingdom. There are always opportunities for the Mons to re‐establish the Mon nation, but the Mons must keep unity, find the better strategies and struggle in consistent commitment.

He expresses there has been both domestic and international recognition to the Mons as a PEOPLE although the Burman leadership refused the Mon as a nationality during pre‐independence day of Burma. The Burman leaders always said in the past that “The Mons and Burmans are identical” in their conservation for a ultimate ‘Assimilation Policy’ toward Mon people. But now, they have to recognize the Mons as a people. He said that now, after 250 years the Mons remains as a people without a country, it is the right time to struggle to re‐establish the Mon nation with greater autonomy.

During the period of 250 years, when Burman King U Aung Ze Ya annexed Mon Kingdom in lower part of Burma, he had well‐planned of committing “Genocide” against Mon people including Buddhist monks said Nai Kasauh Mon, the General Secretary of Mon Unity League.

Based on the history books written in old Mon palm leaves and the western historians’ history books of History of Rangoon and the Mon, the Civilization of South East Asia, there are a lot of evidences, the Burman king planned to kill all Mons and uproot the Mon nationality. He pointed out how the foreigners expressed their eyewitness of executing large number of Mon monks in Rangoon in 1755 before U Aung Ze Ya overthrew Hongsawatoi. He pointed out the history book wrote as:

“His Majesty Aungzeya was of a very fierce and cruel disposition and make no account at all of life. He put to death many monks, and their iron alms bowls and silk robes were taken away, and the homespun robes were made into foot mats. Of some they made pillows, of some they made belts, and of some they made sails. The monks’ robes were scattered all over land and water.”

He expresses that the successive Burman dominated governments in Burma never wrote the true history of their leaders but praised as heroes. But in Mon history, U Aung Ze Ya was a notorious and inhumane king in treating other non‐Burman people.

The 3rd Program: Candle Light Pray at Buddha Gaya Pagoda In the evening about 7: 00 p.m., about 50 Mon people in Sangkhlaburi District attend to the Buddha Gaya Pagoda in Wengka Mon village, which was built by a well known Mon abbot Rev. Uttama last 20 years ago.

Attendants, accordingly to tradition of Buddhism, they pray for those who passed away during the Hongsawatoi Fellen Day to relieve from the troubles. They prayed for Buddhist monks, royal families, leaders and ministers, children and women, soldiers and other ordinary innocent people who were executed in 1757 Genocidal incident.

An elder Mon, led praying words and the other attendants keep their remembrance in their mind. They give flowers to Lord Buddha and light candle for the brighter life of the Mon people. Then they pray for the whole Mon generations to not have faced such genocidal incident again in the future.

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