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It is too early to condemn the elections
The Burmese junta never fully reveals its hand. And the main thrust of any announcement or policy is to keep the opposition and, to a lesser extent, the international community guessing. The junta supremo, Than Shwe is a master of psychological warfare; and he has certainly used the rolling out of the electoral laws, bit by bit, to keep the opposition on the back-foot.
Unfortunately the international community has reacted predictably by totally rejecting the laws that have been unveiled – even before all of them were published – and confidently pre-determining that the election would be neither free nor fair. The US and the UK both took a very hard line without looking carefully at the regulations. For them there is only one issue – the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi must be freed and allowed to contest the elections for the process to be credible and inclusive.
So far, few of the real nuts and bolts of the forthcoming election have actually been revealed, especially the campaign conditions. So it is a little premature to already completely condemn the election. Except for the players – those political parties and politicians inside the country who may be considering contesting the elections – it would be prudent to take a deeper look at the electoral laws.
“These laws laid down relatively fair conditions for the election,” said a senior member of a party that plans to register candidates to contest the election. The registration fee for each party – 300,000 kyat or $US300 – is comparatively cheap, and more crucially the fee for candidates to register to run in the elections is 500,000 kyat (or $US500); far below what was being predicted. Many politicians preparing for the elections believed it would be over $US2,000 and possibly as high as $US5,000.
“The most important condition is that the counting will take place at the polling stations, and the result announced there,” said a Burmese political pundit, who cannot be identified as it is still against the law in the country to comment on the election. The count will also take place in front of local scrutinizers as representatives of all candidates will be allowed to watch the count and make sure there are no irregularities.
This means that that it will be harder for the regime to manipulate the results, like in the 2008 referendum, according to many analysts inside Burma. But the junta has made it abundantly clear that no international election monitors will be allowed in the country. Only last month, the interior minister, attorney general and the chief justice, all told the UN envoy on human rights Tomas Ojea Quintana in no uncertain terms that international observers were not needed. So doubts about the transparency of the process will remain, particularly as seems highly unlikely that foreign journalists will be allowed into the country to cover the campaign or the polls.
“Compared to many other international examples, these laws would not be judged as particularly unfair,” a Western diplomat based in Rangoon told DVB on condition of anonymity. “But it’s the context that matters – a heavily controlled constitution-drafting process, a constitution in favour of the military, a sham referendum result, and 20 years of determined deterrence to would-be political actors,” she said.
Within in this context, it is not unexpected that most analysts, diplomats and observers are reluctant to give the regime the benefit of the doubt. So much in practice may in fact depend on the group of individuals who have been selected by the junta to oversee the election – the new Election Commission.
“The election commission has, as in many democratic elections elsewhere, been given a large degree of authority,” said a Western diplomat who covers Burma. “The difference here is that the authority they have is superficial – their authority will be limited to issuing decisions made behind the scenes at a higher level.”
There is little known about the seventeen members of the electoral commission who were recently appointed, except from the president U Thein Soe. He was a vice chief justice of Burma’s supreme court and former military judge advocate general – very much a military man, though no longer actually in uniform. Among the other members are also former military officers, judges, professors and a retired ambassador. Academics, civil servants and the judiciary have not all been severely cowed under the repressive military regime so are unlikely to try to be independent and much more likely to follow the instructions of the junta leaders.
Since 1962, and particularly since 1988, no court judgement in Burma has gone against the military regime. So there is no reason to assume their behaviour will change now. The previous election commission actually dismissed Aung San Suu Kyi as the National League for Democracy’s secretary general, but the party ignored the instruction and she carried on in that role – even during her long periods of house arrest.
The fact that the 1990 election results have now been formally annulled should also come as no surprise. The fact that the regime has drawn up a new constitution, rammed through a referendum and scheduled fresh elections all in essence made the 1990 elections redundant. Of course this is a disappointment for the NLD and other opposition politicians who toiled so hard to win 20 years ago – and suffered harassment, intimidation and in many cases detention ever since.
Now if they want to contest the next elections, they will have to be vetted by the new election commissioners. “The commission shall invite and interrogate any persons and examine relevant documents of anyone wishing to stand for election before accepting or rejecting their nomination,” says the election by-laws issued by the commission on Thursday, thus giving them enormous control over who is allowed to stand for election. “They will certainly closely scrutinize anyone that the regime objects to and find ways of disqualifying them,” said a senior member of the pro-democracy movement in Thailand, Zin Linn.
There are also severe limits to the amount of money a party and candidate can use in their election campaign. Each candidate can only spend up to 10 million kyat ($US10,000), either from party funds or their own finances. All parties and candidates are strictly prohibited from receiving money from abroad – which is no different from most countries, including the United States. But election finances will certainly be meticulously examined by the EC which can outlaw candidates or political parties for electoral infringements.
Of course the biggest problem with the laws remains the fact that all political activists currently in prison, including Aung San Suu Kyi – though some observers like the former British Ambassador to Thailand and Vietnam, Derek Tonkin, now a leading commentator on Burmese affairs suggests she should actually be exempted as she is under house arrest and not in jail – not only cannot run for election, but cannot be members of a political party. This undoubtedly is unfair – as these people are in prison because they were politically active. Most also have been unfairly convicted and usually on trumped-up charges.
“This [provision] is a gratuitous flouting of the junta’s authority,” said Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty’s Bangkok-based Burma researcher. “For the election to be credible, all political prisoners must be released and allowed to participate.”
This is a crucial point that many governments and human rights groups have been making loudly all along. For if the elections are to be inclusive and transparent as representatives of the regime have been insisting, including the foreign minister Nyan Win at an Non-Aligned Movement meeting in the Philippines this week, all political prisoners must be freed.
The UN envoy for human rights told DVB that throughout his recent visit to Burma, he continued to stress the need to release all political prisoners before the elections if the process was to at all believable. “These are well-educated and capable people who could participate in the election and help make the whole process credible, I told the authorities,” he said.
While this is completely true, and the election will not be seen internationally as free and fair if they remain in detention, this does not make the election laws unacceptable. At present there are more than 2,000 political prisoners, including more than 400 NLD members. Though it is highly likely that many of them will be released in a mass amnesty once the election date is announced – it is almost certain that Aung San Suu Kyi and the imprisoned activists in the 88 group will not be among them.
But if Aung San Suu Kyi is prevented from taking part in the elections, this in itself will not make the elections unfair or unfree. They would certainly not be inclusive or credible. But what the laws reveal is that the regime is putting into place systems whereby they will can effectively control the results. The Election Commission is going to be the problem – as they can effectively determine the result and claim to be doing it on quasi-legal grounds.
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WHO SAYS IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO CRITICIZE THOSE ONE SIDED ELECTION REGULATION? YOU WILL WORK IT OUT ONLY AFTER THE REGIME CRUSHED THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO BITS? YOU TALK THIS WAY AND TAKE RESPONSIBLE TOO.
ONLY THE BURMESE KNOW WHAT KIND OF CREATURE THE REGIME IS, HOW BAD THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE GONNA DO NEXT TO ABUSE THE WHOLE COUNTRY. PUSH YOUR IDEOLOGY TO SOME CORNER WHEN YOU VIEW THE BURMESE POLITICS AS IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SAMPLES. THE REGIME IS NOT THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE NOT PLAYING THE GAME BY THE LAW. THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY WANT. YOU PAY RESPECT TO THEM AND WHAT THEY SAY. YOU ARE FOOLED. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ONE BOXER IS PRAYING TO HIS OPPONENT WHILE THE LATTER TRIES TO PUNCH? YEAH! FIST TO FIST MAN! THAT’S IT. NO OTHER WAY. MAKE THOSE ANIMALS STRAIGHT HARD WAY. IF NOT, WAIT FOR CENTURIES TO SEE BURMA AS DEMOCRACY. EVEN THEN MAYBE NO MAYBE YES………
…and Brutus is an honourable man.
Dear Mr. Burma expert,
For you it’s too early to condemn the election. Shall we wait until the election is finished and the regime can legalize their their military power and then say that your election is not fair? May be you are too expert.
The election will be called invalid by critics if junta fails to let:
1) ASSK take part in the process
2) International observers to be present during the election.
By nature of the regime, both will never happen. But there is a glimpse of chance that Junta might try to appease those critics with one way or the other. ASSK may take a role as an advisor for NLD leadership (which I am sure is one of the options NLD is considering at this point). But her involvement, if there is any, will not be to an extent all expected.
But one thing we need to remind ourselves though. The military will not go anywhere. They will be part of, if not the whole, the decision making in the near future. And they have the largest, educated and united group of thousands of Russian trained officers who are in their 20s and 30s. The country has no choice but to use them in coming decades. Of course, if those with degrees and credentials from the western countries are willing to go back and compete against those military officers, it would significantly be a help in the balance. Who wants to do that???
Fist to fist no longer is an option for this country. There is no end to a fist in a fist to fist fight. And the country can no longer lose any of the remaining resources; whether human or material. Time is of essence. If we truly love this country, let’s keep our pain inside us and look at the majority of 55 million people inside. You alone won’t change a thing. But YOU as many will make an impact.
I am afraid after 62 years of civil war that neither sanctions as have been mentioned or new ideas or reasons for political dialogue will work with the evil dictatorship. We need either an invasion (which wont happen because there is no oil in Burma) or UN intervention to stop the genocide of my prescious Karen brothers & sisters. Unfortunately it is not political salvation that will save the people of Burma. But us all joining together in Unity who are working together for a Free Burma. Even the 500 NGO’s including our Christian Organizations do not work together in Unity. Someone needs to rise up like Zoya Phan and unify all of us who are tirelessly working seperately to bring about peace and work hand in hand in bringing awareness to the situation throughout the world as the tea party’s and such did 225 years ago in America. When we work together we can be a strong force when we are divided we fall and so does our goals and purpose.
Larry
Are you drawing your salary from Than Shwe or Tay Za?
An article in The New Light of Myanmar on 20 March repeats the phrase eight times that the restrictions on party membership only apply to “those serving jail terms” and goes on to say that as soon as they are released from jail, they can join political parties. So is Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, one of “those serving jail terms” or not?
PhoeZ’88
I hope and pray for your dream to become true so soon.
The Russian trained Burmese junior military officers may save the country from the harm way of the oldies ( the ancestors – hard headed generals )?
Are you sure the juniors learnt how to promote human rights in democratic ways in Russia? Or how if the things they studied there are how to make highly explosives at the cost of the poor public and how to oppress the activists and the normal honest people in more effective ways than ever?
And do you believe that Russia is a free country like some other democracies out in the world where they can feel human rights, which may refresh their mind to come back and make Burma better?
One more thing, most of them are sent there as engineers and technicians. There is less chance for them to take major administrational roles in the army. They will probably be asked only to do what they are assigned for and the commanding levels will be occupied only by the groups which the oldies prefer for the sake of their long lasting wealth’s safety. The generals… they are not fools but fooling us continously. You know? Please stop dreaming, hopping something better or change from them. Drive out low spirit of our mind if there is and try to be as tough as them or more. If not, how can we go head to make better Burma even after the regime is down if we are acting like children or virgins infront of the damn soldiers? Right? That ‘ wait & see ‘ technique has been used back in ’60s until now. Did it reall work? Nope. I think not. As you said time is of essence. You are right at this point again. So why waiting to see only we are being dragged by them to where they desire? We don’t know where to go and how to get there? If so, we should be just followers life time like puppets played by the junta. Right? We are low and under now ’cause we didn’t try enough or in correct ways to get over them again. Sitting tight and letting them do anything they want in any way. That’s what we all, the majority, did in decades. When I said, fist to fist, I didn’t mean that we should go underground like other armed enthic org:. Not that way. That’s not working. I know it too. Just prepare and equip ourselves and get ready to end the dictatorship at the cost of our own life in sacrifice. I know that sounds easy but really very very hard to make it happen but…. if we really desire and strong enough to make up what we lost in decades, that will probably be the fastest way. Of course, the game will be a bit long to be finished and there might be some undesirable revenge like events but there will be less if we can establish the right system and government this time as the law only will rule in true democracies. If we don’t have guts enough to do so, yes, as you said, we’d better wait and see and leave it to the history where the dictators will edit and set it as they like.
Actually, it is very simple to change to democracy if we all ( the junta, the opposition & the public ) are honest, brave and eager enough to try but the problem is that the junta is beating the bush and winding like a river ’cause, as I said above, they are neither honest nor brave enough to face the truth. They’ve ultimate fear to speak and do right things now infront of the people and more they’ve become psychopaths during their trial to stay tight in the position of eternal emperor as the result of day and night attempting to prove right guys as wrong. That’s all.
Dear NINE NINE,
1) “The Russian trained Burmese junior military officers may save the country from the harm way of the oldies ( the ancestors – hard headed generals )?”
I didn’t say SAVE. What I said was to “USE” them. Can you identify any group of people with such kind of training the military camps at this moment? And do you think our country has enough human resources NOT to use the Russian trained officers at this point? As far as I can see, it is a firm “NO”. Yes, we do have good human capital outside the country. But how many would go back when the country needs them? Right, most of their conditions are “only when the country becomes democratic”. A country under more than 60 years of military governance will not be fully democratic tomorrow or next year or next decade. During the process, there will be power battles. There will be still corruptions, and others. Who wants to go fight them? Majority of us rather stay away.
2) Yes, you are absolute right. Most of them are engineers. There are two things I want to say about that.
a) You said, “They will probably be asked only to do what they are assigned for and the commanding levels will be occupied only by the groups which the oldies prefer for the sake of their long lasting wealth’s safety”.
Why do you think thousands of soldiers are so united while everyone knows that they are not doing what they are supposed to do? I am not an expert, but I can tell you one thing. Because every one of them is treated the same. When we criticize, we criticize them all. There are millions of people inside and outside the country, yet we can’t fight against a few thousands. Because we make them united. Just criticize the ones to be criticized, and praise the ones to be praise. Who doesn’t want to do the things that people like? Who doesn’t want to be liked? I don’t see the praise for the commander and soldiers who sat down and begged the monks on the street to go back during the 08 revolution in Mandalay? They didn’t kill the monks like the ones in YGN. Not everyone is the same, even in the military. If you net them all and treat them the same, they will become the same.
b) Let’s take a look “ONLY” at the academic credentials. Most of the Chinese leaders are engineers, if you notice that. If you don’t agree with the way they lead the country, however, Chinese leaders are doing at least one thing right though. It’s education. They make their top Universities world-class. And also currently in the US, top-ranked Universities’ PhD programs are filled with Chinese students in all kind of studies. Are those students affiliated with the Chinese government? No, some even hate them. But most of them do go back to the country after studies. It may not be now, but within a few decades, China will have the same conditions as the western have.
We had some government sponsored programs which sent Burmese students to the US and western countries a few decades ago. Sadly, many of them didn’t go back to the country. I don’t want to make any judgment on them. You decide though.
3) “Drive out low spirit of our mind if there is and try to be as tough as them or more. If not, how can we go head to make better Burma even after the regime is down if we are acting like children or virgins infront of the damn soldiers?”
I am not sure what you mean by this. Should we act like “tough” in front of the soldiers or be “tough”?
Acting is not sustainable. Just be confident in yourself. They will listen.
Or be “tough”? Remember that those you called, “damn soldiers” are under “tough” leadership most of their lives. Will they listen to you more? Who do you think they would choose between “tough” military leader and “tough” civilian leader? They will choose one of their own. What they need is fair, consistent and confident leadership. There are a few, if not many, with such abilities among themselves. We don’t have to look too far.
mr nine nine, you are great, u know burmese history, but nothing gonna change inside burma as long as people dont fight back to army junta.burmese people should take example from german nazi era, fight back nasty army junta, than all will be okay
Mr Tonkin,
whether or not ASSK is one who is referred to as serving a jail term, she will be excluded because of the xenophobic foreign spouse law…
Dear PhoeZ’88,
Thanks for your hearty explanation to get me more enlightened but I still have more things to express about the soldiers and the junta.
There are some capatains and majors in my relation though I am quite a civilian worker among them. They told me, whenever there is chance and time to time, they don’t either like the system the junta is using now but really they are not doing anything to correct it as the people who have some limited power to do so. Instead, they are just seeking the wealth when they are in power, being backed by the junta. I know that ’cause they are super rich now by doing much corruption at the department they are assigned to run. You know they had to pay much money to get that post. It is real. So what do you think? These big soldiers are really working to reform the nation or doing business with uniforms and arms? Yes, they are businessmen with guns, Man. That’s it. Maybe they are there intentionally or accidentally but the truth is they like it much now and they will not think to ungrip this opportunity once and for all.
And I ever asked some senior soldiers sitll working in the army if they really love and work for the army. They answered there is no place for them to live except the amry ( meaning homeless ) and don’t know what to do and how to do for living. They said that’s why they keep working for the army for survival but they don’t have any desire to rebolt back. They got total fear to their superiors as they are trained as it is from the beginning.
And more to my own analysis on them, they are still proud to be soldiers, having a bit more previlige than other civilian workers. They seem and sound they like it. That shows once they are soldiers and forever they are.
The problem is they fear their life will go worse when the regime is down. It is totally worng but they don’t know it is wrong and they ever try to defend the view. And they bubble about the policies the junta taught them to learn by heart every day to me. I was surprised with their capacity of wisdom, not being able to overcome the junta’s bullshit propaganda. Just like they are drugged.
One of my old friends, who was, that time, still in the training to be a captain tried to punch a fellow sitting at a nearby table at a restaurant. The cause is the guy touched my friend with his back accidentally. We all saw that but my, that time, not now any more, friend got angry unconsiderably and asked the guy who he thought he was and said he could hit and put him in the jail right away. I was surprised that he ( my friend ) didn’t finish the training yet but he felt superior than any other already. I was thinking why that thing happend like that. With this motive, how can he, as part of the government, take responsiblity of the welfare of the public? I see many things can be related to form the most probable answer.
bad gene, poor common sense, rigid training, one sided policies, over pride, abuse of authority….
I had to work in Russia before. I had to deal with some of my Russian colleague at work. They sometimes told me they want to move and settle down in countries like Ausi:, Japan,… as many of their friends did already ’cause of the bad poiltical cloud in their own country but they said they can’t as they have big families and they can’t speak foreign langauges well and not eager to learn them right at this age. I can understand how and why they feel that way ’cause we are in the same situation.
Those days, some people became soldiers really to defend the country from the foreign invasion but now at this time, they get in there just for doing business in most luxurious means than ever by themselves or for supporting their parents’ existing business to flourish as the junta is the winner of the decades.
How can we believe they will do something good or better change for the majority in purpose? Hearts are different.
Through that experience, I hardly have hope on soldiers or military officers ( seniors / juniors )as good nation reformers.
About China & the chinese, it is a different issue. You can see it if you observe how a chinese family runs some business. They are very family oriented but we the Burmese are a bit more independent than the Chinese. It is good in one way but bad in the other way.
I mean The Burmese will do everything for all or for themselves only. The different gene.
For China, they aim to be world’s no.1 nation in all aspect so the US becomes their biggest rival but the Chinese knows, for the time being, which is the best territory in the world to boost the education of the Chinese people. They don’t stick to the principles if necessary even though they are mostly communist. They send young students to the US as you said though they don’t like the US by politics. Of course many of them came back to reform and strengthen their own country after targeted study as they are family oriented by blood. But it is sure that the Chinese are not working for the whole mankind but for the Chinese only. We can see the examples clearly in our own land. They don’t care about human rights but only the success of their own business ( state or private owned ). We shouldn’t copy all the Chinese characteristics ’cause they are not totally humane.
And it is also different when we choose the sponsered students to go overseas. Whoever are close to the decision making body get the gift. Wrong from the beginning. So no wonder when they didn’t come back after. Right?
But the junta… they just want to be the eternal emperors, not to make Burma true democracy. We can see that through their way of handling nation’s internal affair like education first…
We all know education is important generally and more and most important in building the nation and changing into and practising democracy. If the majority is not well educated enough, whatever system we adopt and practise, it will get bad name just ’cause of lack of education. Maybe the junta knows it too but they failed to establish it and even more they destroyed it and caused brain drain from the country. The reason is their aim is not like Chinese government. If the people get more properly educated, it is harm to their way. They can only use the poorly educated guys as their stooges to hold firm their stage. That’s why the improved education is not in their list. And if they are really going toward to democractic Burma, they needed to pre-educate the people about democracy. Have you ever seen it in any means of their self controlled media? That means they don’t want the people to get ready for the real reform and don’t want the people to know about the true democray, the good and bad sides of it, how to prepare before transission to get well adapt with it. No. Nothing. Right? In any possible way to overview the junta’s movent, there is almost nothing they did and are doing right things for the people and the nation.
Tsunami and Nargis proved that too.
People are saying that 25% of the seats in the parliment have already been occupied by the junta’s handpicked group and the other 75% is for the opposition.
I don’t get it ’cause I see 75% will be theirs and only 25% for the opposition if lucky enough.
25% is sure for them as per the damn sham referendum. Ok forget it.
So how about the other junta backed parties? They recruited the memembers in every illegal ways possible. Anyway, almost the whole country is in their list as members whether they know or not by now.
How much percentage shall they coup in the parliament through the controlled election?
They already planned to crush the main opposition parties and it is on the move now.
When we see all of these, we can feel the future is not for us.
About the leadership in the army, yes, they need fair, consistent and confident leaders by nature but they need democracy more too like us.
I am not saying all against your explanation & suggestion in the post but I am just trying to contribute my own experience, view & idea to get the complete picture of the junta, the present situation and the possible future.
Dear Larry,
Could you tell NLD and us how to reveal the Nagis Election Law was unfair and unfree when and how, please?
Dear Nine Nine,
I totally agree your opinion.
Could you give your idea how to make Myanmar truly democratic country in short time, not waiting the regime died out, let say, how to make revoluton to remove the regime in practical way ?
I think you can make and propose it to Myanmar people.
Ko Min Aung,
It is that simple.
What do we want now?
Democracy! Right?
Controlled one or true one?
True one! Right?
Are we ready for that? NO!
Why? Yeah! ’cause some people in Burma still don’t know what Democracy is.
It’s real. Look around your neighborhood. Some really don’t know about it. Some know but not completely and correctly. The others don’t care about politics except the business. Some can’t get into it as they have to struggle just for day to day living.
What they should / must know is they are doing some sort of politics whether they know or not they are doing. That affects on both sides ( the regime & opposition ), let’s say, the present and future condition of the nation and their living too. But very disappointing they don’t know that.
Maybe, it is the Burmese culture too ( not unique ). When the people are not united and don’t have one single goal, how can they move to make it? Democracy needs the unity of the people but not the one like the regime always does ( oppression by force ) as the meaning is just right there in the word itself ‘ Democracy ‘.
Ok. So some or more people don’t know about it and are not yet ready for it. Let it be. What do we do then? We will leave them like that? I think we can’t. Of course there will be one more uprising like in ’88 when life is so hard to live again in the near future but it may not lead to success ’cause people strike it as they can’t take it anymore yet they don’t have the clear picture of where they are going and how. Then again, it will surely be brutally crushed down by the evil regime again. No way out!
The people need to be educated about Democracy.
They need damn honest leaders, not like the ones ( brokers ) who are going to contest the 2010 elections.
They should make the revolution by heart, by blood and of course by brain too when the chance is given.
You see ‘ No pain, No gain ‘. Right?
But how to educate the people about Democracy while they are under the brutal regime’s unjust rule?
Negotiation is not working as the regime proves in many encounters that they are not that type. ‘ Do or Die ‘ is their tactics.
So to educate and get the people united under the same sky, we have to remove the regime by force first.
They are the only obstacle to Democracy.
As long as they are there, no Democracy at all. Don’t even dream.
See…we have to clear the tall grass and some things like that before we grow the crop in the field for better quality. Right?
The regime is the tall grass for establishing Democracy in Burma.
We don’t remove them. We can’t adopt Democracy right here.
How to remove them?
Negotiation? NO! Not working.
Get ourselves trained and equipped for military action needed.
Detect who is the mole in the army.
Clear them with our life in scrifice.
Don’t go out to the streets for strike.
Don’t give the speech to the public.
Don’t go underground.
Not working and those will be defeated by the regime.
It is not the whole army which is making Burma bad but some few guys inside.
So we have to take them down in any ways possible.
The rest of them will be happy to join with us then.
I see no other way.
If not, we try and try and try in normal ways and in the international standard movement. They are not moved ‘casue they are above the law. And they have guns and evil spirit and are doing anything they want against the people’s real desire by all wicked means.
Only after removing them, we can proceed to perform the rest of our responsibilities to reform the nation as true Demorcracy.
I was beating the bush, while trying to zoom in on the issue.
Actually, it is simple just like I said at the very first.
Kill the moles in the army in any possible ways. I mean the moles only, not the whole army.
That’s all.
Then the game will be easier to play.
This is a very good article the writer is very careful and neutral is what he/she has said. Others like Pastor Joe Tuccinardi are just mis-informed. What do you mean there is no oil in Burma?…No jade either I suppose? If anyone wants an informed conversation about Burma/Myanmar go to http://www.economist.com/node/15816746/comments
This is an intelligent blog comment site in relation to Burma. Not some propaganda from the NLD.