Today is the 75 commemoration Day of the death of Venerable U Ottama,
the originator of independence for present Burma. contemporary with
Mahatama Gandhi from India and China's Dr Sun Yal sen, U Otttama was
among the greatest one who exploded flame of freedom struggle not only
in his own land Arakan and Burma, but also through out surrounding entire Asian region.
so today become a special occasion to recall the glorious role played
by this great leader during his anti-British freedom movement in Asia as
well as in this native land Arakan.
born in 1879 in Arakan,
once a powerful independent kingdom along the Bay of Bangal , the great
patriotic monk, property came to realize that his tiny native land
Arakan and Burma lone could not fight against the mighty of an empire on
which the Sun never set.
his anti-British political view and
strategy " All Asian unification against colonialism" was firstly
expressed in " Conference for all colonized people" held in Japan 1907
and attended by about 300 delegates from different colonized nations.
during the conference he was honored with a nick- name as the" Sun of
Asia" and was also well-known in Japan by this name since then.
while he had close ties with great Indians of that time such as Gadhi,
Tilak, Tagore and Baroda Maharajah he was a popular leader among the
India national congress and at the same time he was even elected as
president of all India Hindu mahasabha in 1935. having established
intimate collaboration with Dr. Sun Yat Sen too, he made visits to the
people of China, Korea, Indo-China and even Tibet in order to gain
political solidarity among all Asians against British colonialism.
Besides these distinguished contributions to the all Asian freedom
movement against colonialism, became the fiest national hero in British
Burma, who defied the British power with dauntless courage by writing "
Cradock get out of Burma" in an open letter to the governor of British
Burma. Sir Geginald Gradock wiile every body in Burma was absoulutely
silent with great fear under British ruler. His thunderous call and
ourage shook and awakened the entire Burma with patriotic feelings and
uprising against the British. Moreover he was the first politician from
British Burma who was arrested by the authority for delivering his
political public address openly against the British ruler. But, he
warmly embraced every imprisonment put by British which came
consecutively in 1912, 1924 and 1923 etc:.
various prominent
mass organizations of earlier part of anti-British movement in Burma
such as G.C.B.A (General council of Buddhist Association ) , WAN THA NU
ALTHON(PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION) and SANGHA THAMAGHI( All monks union) were
steered by him and the whole country became united under his leadership
. total collapse of notorious diarchy rule and 1920 Rangoon college
students boycott were most remarkable of landmark of that victorious
mass movement . in the entire history of British in Burma, he braved to
become the first Buddhist monk who devoted his entire life for the
people's case against tradition and led the entire freedom movement
introducing Gandhi's non-violent ideology and tactics combined with
teaching of Buddha. thus he achieved the name called Gandhi of Burma.
he, through his whole life , lived simply and died poorly in 1939.
all India congress committee, as soon as hearing the news that U Ottama
was passed away in Burma, expressed their deep sorrow on death of the U
Ottama who for years represented the province of Burma on the All India
congress committee and portrayed valuable services in the case of India
freedom. But , his sprit against colonialism will never die and his
fighting for liberty, democracy, peace and justice for all oppressed
people of the world will be ever alive.
Although it appeared
independent in 1943, but Burma is still being remained under the
notorious military dictatorship in Burma. the freedom that expected by
Ven-U Ottama was not fulfilled yet. thus the fughting for freedom for
all oppressed people is going on within territory and the flag of
liberty highly erected by Ottama is being passed down over new
generations continuously.
I therefore, on this martyr Day
greatest patriotic Buddhist monk Ven U Ottama , paying great homage him ,
let us straighten and modernize our pledge to complete and materialize
his noble aim and task in his unfinished target for liberating all still
oppressed people and nation of the world, on behalf of all Arakanese
people who are still suffering politically, economically and socially in
Arakan, claimed the following to the notorious present ruler to
accomplish immediately:
1. to hand over the power the great
government body that can handle the situation of Muslims according to
the rule and regulations of Burma.
2. need to born a strong
rule and regulations for the people of Muslims who threaten entire Burma
and religion and entire world and stop accepting Muslims from
Bangladesh and destroy illegal Mosques in the entire Burma and reduce
mosques amount in Arakan immediately.
3. strongly recommended
to present notorious ruler to recognize 969 body legally in nations wide
and give power to do development of Buddhism in the country and around
the world.
4. to recognize Ven U Ottama's Day as national Day in Burma immediately.
5. to stop Gas business with China if 50% of money getting from Gas is not using for Development of Arakan state.
6. to keep strong hold for meaningful cease fire dialogue until getting
agreement in between armed forces and to let be all states as a federal
state immediately.
7. to give power to Arakan army as a border security force.
this is individual press release
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