Safeguard Independence and Sovereignty at risk of live

Today,all the national races must keep in mind that it is our inborn duty to discharge what we are entrusted with enhancing the spirit of national solidarity,nationalist spirit and the love for the Union and with the spirit of sacrificing lives in safeguarding independence and sovereignty of the mother-land in order that independence that was regained would not be lost again.

Senior General Than Shwe

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council

Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services

(From message sent on the occasion of 52nd Anniversary Independence Day)