10.06.2007

Editorial: Let us request for UN supervision

On SPDC Junta’s Roadmap

_Dr San Oo Aung

The SPDC is overconfident and they think that they are powerful enough to proceed as they like on their own road map as if carrying out the Burmese saying_ Nga Myin Ngar Saing, Sagaing yauk yauk; Nga Hlae Ngar htoe, Pago yauk yauk (riding on my own horse and on my own boat to wherever I want)

There will be no difference whether we just boycott or cast our vote in the coming referendum and elections, as SPDC will rig the results. In the last election of 1990, Myanmar Military stayed neutral and lost heavily. They are not that naive or ignorant to forget about that or to let it happen again.

Therefore, this time we all may need UN supervision and we must demand the referendum and election be held under strict supervision by UN Election Commission or UN monitors. UN appointed Election Commission consisting of international monitors should be allowed to supervise, manage, count the votes, to decide and declare the winner, and to transfer power duly to the election winning party.

We all must push at the UN Security Council to give the UN mandate for international supervision on the coming referendum and elections in Burma. If the SPDC refuse UN, it will become very apparent that those SPDC roadmap steps are just the smoke screen to trick the Burmese People and the International Community. Then we can persuade UN and International Community to punish SPDC junta heavily.

And, moreover, instead of just stating YES or NO on the whole constitution, Burmese people should be allowed to vote on individual different salient points such as_

1. The clauses in favour of perpetuation of military dominance.
2. The clauses which might bar Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s eligiblity to contest or to head the government, just because her late husband was not Burmese.
3. Definite points on Democracy, Human Rights, Individual Freedom and Basic principles of the Federal Union.

I believed that this is the only way to put the bell on the SPDC wild tiger. If they refuse they would definitely lost their legitimacy and credibility in the eyes of the whole world. If they allow, they will not be able to rig, cheat, coerce, bully, or intimidate the people.

Comments:

Than Setkyar Heine said _

Than Shwe has no desire or intention to get Burma democratized in its true light and sense other than via his Seven Step Road Map, as we all believed would lead the people and country to NOWHERE other than under his MILITARY RULE, and he and his ilk would enslave the people like now until to eternity.
That's the ploy and the gimmick of his reviving the oft-stalled National Convention which we dubbed the SHAM SHOW for lack of freedom and spirit of democracy and moreover, participated by handpicked lackeys, drug warlords and some ethnic renegades only. NLD and other legal entities have boycotted the farcical show as you very well know.

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