History of Myanmar's labour movement (p27/505)

This post presents page 27 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

အလားတူ ။ the same, as, similarly
ဒေသန္တရ ။ regional
စည်ပင်သာယာရေး ။ development committee (of towns and cities)
ပရိယာယ် ။ synonym; oblique or indirect reference; stratagem; deception; ruse
လှည့်ပတ် ။ to deceive
လပ်ပေးလပ်ယူမှု ။ corruption
အလေ့အထအကျင့် ။ practice, training, habit, custom
သင့်တင့် ။ proper, be on good terms
အလိုတော်ရိ ။ sycophant
ကိုယ်ကျိုး ။ self-interest
ကလိန်ခြုံကပ်ပါး ။ one who lies and gets close

Translation:

... Regional administrative organisations were formed in order to administer together with government officials and to form and administer state committees that were similar to the municipal organisations in some big cities; and health, education and development works were carried out.

All of the forms of the aforementioned administrative system, being many kinds of strategies following the divide-and-rule policy just for the exclusive economic benefit of the British imperialists, was on the one hand lying and deceiving in order to comfort and please so as to get the desired benefit, one the other hand while causing domestic conflicts such as corruption, bad habits, improper behaviour between ethnic nationalities, and aggressive hatred, they were means to bring about the emergence and increase of sycophants, traitors, self-serving people, lying lackeys and broken habits. These were symptoms of the colonial bureaucracy system.