What I think Is What It is

Everyone wanna be free whatever he or she does without any restraining. It is known that people live within communities and in historical process. Nobody wanna be under the rule of other nationalities. Look at Scottish people who were under the British rule over 300 years but they never forget what they were and what they wanted. They carried on their national duty from generations to generations. Even in the predicament of politic, they ever were in unity to face hardships and overcame it. As a result of it, they are about to gain their independence in 2014 from the British but it is needed to implement from the both sides of Scott and British. As all we know, we belong to Arakan, in other words, we are Arakanese National who is being lost independence over 200 years under the Burma since 1784s. Absolutely, I believe that all Arakan never wanna be under the Burma because Arakan was not Burma and also Arakan is not Burma and Arakan will not be Burma. Arakan is Arakan who had own independent kingdom and dynasties. If you ask everyone of Arakan, not only me but also all Arakan, do they want independence from Burma? The answer is surely “ yes”. So, it is consensus of people of Arakan and one should recognize it particularly ruling national – Burma -in Myanmar Nation. I am not saying that we, Arakan, will struggle in violence against the Burma to regain our independence but we must do what the best we can in legal ways in democratic system which is being practiced in Myanmar. There is something, in politic of Myanmar, which we are to welcome because it paves initially democratic ways for the people like Arakan first time in the period of 48 years – from 1962 to 2010 - but it is only fetus of democracy that we all know and there are also a lot of things which we are to amend gradually to come mature fully. It is our duty to participate in the process of democracy of Myanmar whatever we can so that both of Arakan and Burma and other ethnics will have benefits of it and peacefully whatever they can sometime in future. (Maung Moe Zaw)