Day: October 4, 2009
Legitimate Democratic Leaders inside Burma Say “No” to Junta’s 2010 Election-Note by BDC to”ENC wants ethnic groups to contest 2010 elections”
In contrast to the ENC’s policy, the Committee Representing Peoples’ Parliament (CRPP), a group formed with 1990 election winning parties, said unless the regime amends the 2008 constitution, the elections would be meaningless and the CRPP would not contest.
Aye Thar Aung, Secretary of the CRPP, told Mizzima on Friday, “Without amending the 2008 constitution, the ethnics can do nothing even if they participate and are elected. They would just end up as puppets of the junta.”
He said the CRPP as well as Aung San Suu Kyi’s party – the National League for Democracy – have both demanded that the junta release political prisoners, amend the 2008 constitution, and recognize the 1990 election results.
“Unless these demands are met, we the CRPP and the ALD, will not participate in the elections,” Aye Thar Aung, who is also secretary for the Arakan League for Democracy, said.
“And without the junta fulfilling these demands, I would like to urge ethnic groups and others not to participate in the elections,” he added.
The CRPP, formed in September 1998, is an alliance of ethnic political parties that won elections in 1990, which the junta refused to honour. Its members include the NLD, ALD, Shan National League for Democracy (SNLD), Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) and Zomi National Congress (ZNC).
Burma’s military rulers, as the fifth step of its seven-step roadmap to democracy, said it will hold general elections in 2010, that will elect a semi-civilian government based on the 2008 constitution, which according to the junta was approved by over 90 per cent of voters in May last year.
Critics said the junta’s roadmap is to buy-time and to cement the role of military in Burma’s future politics.
http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/2855-enc-wants-ethnic-groups-to-contest-2010-elections.html
https://democracyforburma.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/letter-to-senator-webb-from-ethnic-nationalities-councilshare/
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