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A MESSAGE OF GREAT REGRET

(By Than Shwe)

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You Shans, Karens and other ethnic races,
Your courage, simplicity and determination
Filled my soul with venomous jealousy,
Poisonous rage and bitterness.

I had no freedom,
So I destroyed yours,
I made you live in fear,
In poverty and in despair -
I robbed you of everything you had;
Education, livelihood, home, land,
And country
But worse of all,
Your freedom!

Hundreds and thousands I had ordered to be imprisoned,
Tortured, or unlawfully murdered,
All the women and children my soldiers had raped;
The one million poor internally displaced people
Will forever be my great source of remorse!

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