Keep Us Strong WikiLeaks logo

Currently released so far... 97115 / 251,287

Articles

Browse latest releases

Browse by creation date

Browse by origin

A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Browse by tag

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ETRD EAGR ETTC EAID ECON EFIN ECIN EINV ELAB EAIR ENRG EPET EWWT ECPS EIND EMIN ELTN EC ETMIN EUC EZ ET ELECTIONS ENVR EU EUN EG EINT ER ECONOMICS ES EMS ENIV EEB EN ECE ECOSOC EK ENVIRONMENT EFIS EI EWT ENGRD ECPSN EXIM EIAD ERIN ECPC EDEV ENGY ECTRD EPA ESTH ECCT EINVECON ENGR ERTD EUR EAP EWWC ELTD EL EXIMOPIC EXTERNAL ETRDEC ESCAP ECO EGAD ELNT ECONOMIC ENV ETRN EIAR EUMEM ENRGPARMOTRASENVKGHGPGOVECONTSPLEAID EREL ECOM ECONETRDEAGRJA ETCC ETRG ECONOMY EMED ETR ENERG EITC EFINOECD EURM EENG ERA EXPORT ENRD ECONEINVETRDEFINELABETRDKTDBPGOVOPIC EGEN EBRD EVIN ETRAD ECOWAS EFTA ECONETRDBESPAR EGOVSY EPIN EID ECONENRG EDRC ESENV ETT EB ENER ELTNSNAR ECHEVARRIA ETRC EPIT EDUC ESA EFI ENRGY ESCI EE EAIDXMXAXBXFFR EETC ECIP EIAID EIVN EBEXP ESTN EING EGOV ETRA EPETEIND ELAN ETRDGK EAIDRW ETRDEINVECINPGOVCS EPEC ENVI ELN EAG EPCS EPRT EPTED ETRB EUM EAIDS EFIC EFINECONEAIDUNGAGM EAIDAR ESF EIDN ELAM EDU EV EAIDAF ECN EDA EXBS EINTECPS ENRGTRGYETRDBEXPBTIOSZ EPREL EAC EINVEFIN ETA EAGER EINDIR ECA ECLAC ELAP EITI EUCOM ECONEFINETRDPGOVEAGRPTERKTFNKCRMEAID EARG ELDIN EINVKSCA ENNP EFINECONCS EFINTS ECCP ETC EAIRASECCASCID EINN ETRP EAIDNI EFQ ECOQKPKO EGPHUM EBUD ECONEINVEFINPGOVIZ ENERGY ELB EINDETRD EMI ECONEFIN EIB EURN ETRDEINVTINTCS EIN EFIM ETIO ELAINE EMN EATO EWTR EIPR EINVETC ETTD ETDR EIQ ECONCS EPPD ENRGIZ EISL ESPINOSA ELEC EAIG ESLCO EUREM ENTG ERD EINVECONSENVCSJA EEPET EUNCH ECINECONCS ETRO ETRDECONWTOCS ECUN EFND EPECO EAIRECONRP ERGR ETRDPGOV ECPN ENRGMO EPWR EET EAIS EAGRE EDUARDO EAGRRP EAIDPHUMPRELUG EICN ECONQH EVN EGHG ELBR EINF EAIDHO EENV ETEX ERNG ED
KMDR KPAO KPKO KJUS KCRM KGHG KFRD KWMN KDEM KTFN KHIV KGIC KIDE KSCA KNNP KHUM KIPR KSUM KISL KIRF KCOR KRCM KPAL KWBG KN KS KOMC KSEP KFLU KPWR KTIA KSEO KMPI KHLS KICC KSTH KMCA KVPR KPRM KE KU KZ KFLO KSAF KTIP KTEX KBCT KOCI KOLY KOR KAWC KACT KUNR KTDB KSTC KLIG KSKN KNN KCFE KCIP KGHA KHDP KPOW KUNC KDRL KV KPREL KCRS KPOL KRVC KRIM KGIT KWIR KT KIRC KOMO KRFD KUWAIT KG KFIN KSCI KTFIN KFTN KGOV KPRV KSAC KGIV KCRIM KPIR KSOC KBIO KW KGLB KMWN KPO KFSC KSEAO KSTCPL KSI KPRP KREC KFPC KUNH KCSA KMRS KNDP KR KICCPUR KPPAO KCSY KTBT KCIS KNEP KFRDCVISCMGTCASCKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KNNB KGCC KINR KPOP KMFO KENV KNAR KVIR KDRG KDMR KFCE KNAO KDEN KGCN KICA KIMMITT KMCC KLFU KMSG KSEC KUM KCUL KMNP KSMT KCOM KOMCSG KSPR KPMI KRAD KIND KCRP KAUST KWAWC KTER KCHG KRDP KPAS KITA KTSC KPAOPREL KWGB KIRP KJUST KMIG KLAB KTFR KSEI KSTT KAPO KSTS KLSO KWNN KPOA KHSA KNPP KPAONZ KBTS KWWW KY KJRE KPAOKMDRKE KCRCM KSCS KWMNCI KESO KWUN KPLS KIIP KEDEM KPAOY KRIF KGICKS KREF KTRD KFRDSOCIRO KTAO KJU KWMNPHUMPRELKPAOZW KEN KO KNEI KEMR KKIV KEAI KWAC KRCIM KWCI KFIU KWIC KCORR KOMS KNNO KPAI KBWG KTTB KTBD KTIALG KILS KFEM KTDM KESS KNUC KPA KOMCCO KCEM KRCS KWBGSY KNPPIS KNNPMNUC KWN KERG KLTN KALM KCCP KSUMPHUM KREL KGH KLIP KTLA KAWK KWMM KVRP KVRC KAID KSLG KDEMK KX KIF KNPR KCFC KFTFN KTFM KPDD KCERS KMOC KDEMAF KMEPI KEMS KDRM KEPREL KBTR KEDU KNP KIRL KNNR KMPT KISLPINR KTPN KA KJUSTH KPIN KDEV KTDD KAKA KFRP KWNM KTSD KINL KJUSKUNR KWWMN KECF KWBC KPRO KVBL KOM KFRDKIRFCVISCMGTKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KEDM KFLD KLPM KRGY KNNF KICR KIFR KM KWMNCS KAWS KLAP KPAK KDDG KCGC KID KNSD KMPF KPFO KDP KCMR KRMS KNPT KNNNP KTIAPARM KDTB KNUP KPGOV KNAP KNNC KUK KSRE KREISLER KIVP KQ KTIAEUN KPALAOIS KRM KISLAO KWM KFLOA
PHUM PINR PTER PGOV PREL PREF PL PM PHSA PE PARM PINS PK PUNE PO PALESTINIAN PU PBTS PROP PTBS POL POLI PA PGOVZI POLMIL POLITICAL PARTIES POLM PD POLITICS POLICY PAS PMIL PINT PNAT PV PKO PPOL PERSONS PING PBIO PH PETR PARMS PRES PCON PETERS PRELBR PT PLAB PP PAK PDEM PKPA PSOCI PF PLO PTERM PJUS PSOE PELOSI PROPERTY PGOVPREL PARP PRL PNIR PHUMKPAL PG PREZ PGIC PBOV PAO PKK PROV PHSAK PHUMPREL PROTECTION PGOVBL PSI PRELPK PGOVENRG PUM PRELKPKO PATTY PSOC PRIVATIZATION PRELSP PGOVEAIDUKNOSWGMHUCANLLHFRSPITNZ PMIG PREC PAIGH PROG PSHA PARK PETER POG PHUS PPREL PS PTERPREL PRELPGOV POV PKPO PGOVECON POUS PGOVPRELPHUMPREFSMIGELABEAIDKCRMKWMN PWBG PMAR PREM PAR PNR PRELPGOVEAIDECONEINVBEXPSCULOIIPBTIO PARMIR PGOVGM PHUH PARTM PN PRE PTE PY POLUN PPEL PDOV PGOVSOCI PIRF PGOVPM PBST PRELEVU PGOR PBTSRU PRM PRELKPAOIZ PGVO PERL PGOC PAGR PMIN PHUMR PVIP PPD PGV PRAM PINL PKPAL PTERE PGOF PINO PHAS PODC PRHUM PHUMA PREO PPA PEPFAR PGO PRGOV PAC PRESL PORG PKFK PEPR PRELP PREFA PNG PGOVPHUMKPAO PRELECON PINOCHET PFOR PGOVLO PHUMBA PRELC PREK PHUME PHJM POLINT PGOVPZ PGOVKCRM PGOVE PHALANAGE PARTY PECON PEACE PROCESS PLN PRELSW PAHO PEDRO PRELA PASS PPAO PGPV PNUM PCUL PGGV PSA PGOVSMIGKCRMKWMNPHUMCVISKFRDCA PGIV PRFE POGOV PEL PBT PAMQ PINF PSEPC POSTS PHUMPGOV PVOV PHSAPREL PROLIFERATION PENA PRELTBIOBA PIN PRELL PGOVPTER PHAM PHYTRP PTEL PTERPGOV PHARM PROTESTS PRELAF PKBL PRELKPAO PKNP PARMP PHUML PFOV PERM PUOS PRELGOV PHUMPTER PARAGRAPH PERURENA PBTSEWWT PCI PETROL PINSO PINSCE PQL PEREZ PBS

Browse by classification

Community resources

courage is contagious

Viewing cable 06RANGOON981, BURMESE REGIME REACTS TO POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION

If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs

Understanding cables
Every cable message consists of three parts:
  • The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.
  • The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.
  • The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section.
To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference.

Discussing cables
If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking services like Twitter with the hash tags #cablegate and a hash containing the reference ID e.g. #06RANGOON981.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06RANGOON981 2006-07-13 07:20 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Rangoon
VZCZCXRO7473
OO RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM RUEHNH
DE RUEHGO #0981/01 1940720
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 130720Z JUL 06 ZDK
FM AMEMBASSY RANGOON
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4805
INFO RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0999
RUEHSL/AMEMBASSY BRATISLAVA 0031
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 9771
RUEHCP/AMEMBASSY COPENHAGEN 0Q9
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA 4Q7
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 1693
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 3421
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 0423
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 6868
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 4484
RUEHCI/AMCONSUL CALCUTTA 0823
RUEHCN/AMCONSUL CHENGDU 0825
RUDKIA/AMCONSUL CHIANG MAI 0520
RHHMUNA/CDR USPACOM HONOLULU HI
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 2759
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0401
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
RUEKJCS/JOINT STAFF WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 RANGOON 000981 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS; PACOM FOR FPA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
SUBJECT: BURMESE REGIME REACTS TO POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION 
 
 
RANGOON 00000981  001.4 OF 003 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: The government daily newspaper, the New 
Light of Myanmar (NLM), has recently intensified the quantity 
and degree of its rhetoric against its political opposition 
in an ongoing series of multi-page articles.  The articles 
also attempt to counter charges that Burma represents a 
threat to regional security justifying UN Security Council 
attention.  This has struck a nerve and these articles are 
the reaction.  End summary. 
 
2. (SBU) The main regime-controlled English daily, the New 
Light of Myanmar, increased its articles/editorials attacking 
its political opposition, defending GOB practices, and 
accusing western interests of trying to overthrow the Burmese 
regime and install a "puppet" NLD government.  The NLM 
articles describe the opposition as either tools of, or 
providing bad information to, Western plotters, and warn the 
Burmese "to be well vigilant against the ongoing political 
warfare operation of the alien powers through which they are 
persuading...nations that support Myanmar to marginalize the 
country, and to bring forward Myanmar affairs to the UNSC to 
take action against it." 
 
3. (SBU) Addressing the international community's concerns 
about forced labor, a July 6 article states that, "From time 
immemorial, Myanmar national people have been contributing 
towards construction of self-reliant roads and bridges of 
their own volition.  Those who use the norms practiced in 
western countries to make accusations of forced labor have 
not participated in the construction of a road or bridge." 
Other articles criticize ILO efforts to reduce forced labor. 
 
Defending Internal Political Stability 
-------------------------------------- 
4. (SBU) The articles try to make the case that only the 
Tatmadaw (military) can safeguard the Burmese people against 
the dangers of internal and external insurgents.  A June 21 
article claimed that the country was on the brink of disaster 
in 1988 when the Tatmadaw stepped in to create order. 
Another article on June 19 reported the country was "making 
strenuous efforts to gain national reconciliation, and 
further cementing of national unity."  Other articles charge 
some groups with attempting to destabilize Burma, such as the 
Karen National Union and remnants of the Burmese Communist 
Party (BCP) now in league with the NLD.  Articles on June 18 
and June 22 call the KNU a terrorist organization, and 
justify Burmese Army actions against it as "just, fair and 
necessary" so that "the motherland did not lose its 
sovereignty."  A June 21 article reports on BCP conspiracies 
with internal and external saboteurs that aim to "reverse the 
GOB trend" of peace and prosperity. 
 
5. (SBU) The articles assert that democracyQn Burma must 
develop slowly, through the seven-step SPDC Roadmap. 
According to the June 21 NLM, the Roadmap to democracy has 
been successful, with the National Convention ready to 
conclude "in the near future." A July 5 editorial claims, 
"Liberal democracy may be the right choice for countries like 
the USA, India, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and 
Indonesia. As for Myanmar where democracy has not flourished 
yet...liberal democracy is stranger to her as a (bald) monk 
is to a comb.  It is not the government that is rejecting 
liberal democracy, but the objective economic and political 
situations existing in the nation...What is most appropriate 
is national democracy (discipline-flourishing democracy), not 
western liberal democracy."  The articles describe the ruling 
government's policy also as "scientific nationalism." 
According to the NLM, this means: "priority is given to the 
domestic market, and the policy will never go extreme and 
 
RANGOON 00000981  002.2 OF 003 
 
 
will never colonize others." 
 
 
Discredit the Opposition 
------------------------ 
6. (SBU) Numerous articles have discredited opposition 
groups, including the NLD, 88 Generation Students, Shan 
Women's Action Network (SWAN) and Veteran Politicians, 
claiming that external forces influence these groups to make 
unwarranted charges against the regime.  A June 22 article 
states, "We have observed that remnants of the BCP, NCUB, and 
expatriates, party politicians, veteran politicians, new 
generations politicians, individual or independent 
politicians have repeatedly expressed the idea of grabbing 
State power through inciting internal unrest." 
 
7. (SBU) The NLM articles regularly criticize Aung San Suu 
Kyi's leadership skills and her lack of understanding of the 
nation.  A July 5 article titled, "She who turned alien or 
danger to the nation," claimed that her release, requested by 
the US and liberal groups, would be dangerous for her and for 
the nation.  It states, "The government and Daw Suu Kyi and 
the NLD are moving towards opposite directions...it is 
absolutely impossible to reach an agreement between the two 
sides."  Asking the GOB for her release is wrong, according 
to the article, because only she can release herself by 
giving up her advocacy of "liberal policy."  "Until then," it 
added, "the restrictions (on her) will never be lifted." 
 
8. (SBU) The articles charge "powerful nations of the west," 
or "certain foreign powers" with trying to install NLD as 
their "minion" and "a puppet government."   The articles cite 
multiple visits made by diplomats to NLD headquarters as 
proof of these plots, and claim that the visits go beyond 
proper diplomatic behavior.  A June 25 article claims that 
"the notorious power" is the "mastermind manipulating the 
strings from behind such internal and external groups" who 
conspire to overthrow the GOB. 
 
No Cross Border Concerns 
------------------------ 
9. (SBU) The press campaign also tries to address claims that 
events inside Burma pose a threat to the region.  A June 19 
article states, "the conditions of Myanmar do not pose any 
threats to regional security or the security of neighboring 
countries."  A number of articles mention international 
concerns such as trafficking in persons and drugs, refugees, 
and diseases.  The authors refute criticisms by listing SPDC 
accomplishments, including declining drug production and 
abuse, increasing numbers of rescued trafficking victims and 
prosecuted traffickers, infrastructure construction, growing 
agricultural production, and accelerating GDP growth.  On 
July 6, another article stated, "The developments and new 
infrastructures stand witness to the fact that (Burma) is 
enjoying progress in all sectors and prove that all 
slanderous accusations against it are wrong."   The authors 
boast that these accomplishments were achieved without 
international assistance, bolstering regime claims of 
internal control and stability.  They dismiss claims about 
refugees, describing them as only relatives of KNU members 
and others who do not want to live under rule of law. 
 
Summing Up 
---------- 
10. (SBU) The July 5 article summed up the differences 
between the regime and its political opposition.  "The ruling 
government is the national government, the policy is the 
scientific nationalism, the economic system is the 
 
RANGOON 00000981  003.4 OF 003 
 
 
market-oriented economy or capitalism under the leadership of 
the state, and the political aim is discipline-flourishing 
democracy (national democracy) to be introduced in accordance 
with the Asian wQ."  In contrast: "The policy of Daw Suu Kyi 
and the NLD is not the nationalism, but the liberal way, 
opposite of nationalism. Their economy is the westernized 
market economy, their economic policy is capitalism under the 
leadership of capitalists or liberal economy, and their 
politics is liberal democracy, not the national democracy." 
 
10. (SBU) Comment: Yes.  We do support the policies the NLM 
ascribes to ASSK and the NLD.  The regime's diatribes against 
the pro-democracy opposition and us wax and wane over the 
years, without changing minds.  The discussion of possible 
UNSC action now has struck a nerve because it challenges the 
regime's legitimacy before the international community.  The 
Burmese people declared them illegitimate in 1990. End 
comment. 
VILLAROSA