Colombo, Aug. 6 -- As a boy, I participated in the 50 meters race, whose 400 meters track was lined by the Japanese helmets, in the 1947 First Independence Day of the Union of Burma, at Loikaw, Karenni State where the Karenni guerrillas had successfully mauled the Japanese with the arms dropped by the US Air Force.

Since then, the non-Myanmar ethnic nationalities, unlike the Myanmar who fought on the side of the fascist Japanese, had admired the Americans.

John F. Kennedy inauguration words of "Proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness the human rights violations to which we are committed today at home and abroad, we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, opposed any foe to assure the su...