February 12, All Burma Monks' Alliance
Rejection of the Burmese military junta's announcement 1/2008 and 2/2008
(A) In 1974, then-dictator General Ne Win and his regime had redrawn the
1947 State Constitution and forced the people to endorse it. Therefore,
rule of the one-party dictator****p was stronger and the people of Burma
were poorer. Then Burma became the world least developing country (LCD).
(B) Under the one-party dictator****p, national economy had been
deteriorated and as general population were not able to tolerate the
situation, they came to the streets to launch the 1988 popular democracy
uprising.
(C) After the current military regime took over power from the previous
regime, it held the multi-party generations in 1990. As this military
regime fails to keep its own promise that it would hand over the power to
the election winning party in 1990, we believe that its recent
announcement of schedule to hold a general election in 2010 is not
necessary.
(D) As did by the previous dictator Ne Win, planning to hold the
referendum without respecting the real desire of the people of Burma is
another insult to the people and will worsen the situation of the country.
(E) Current situation of the people of Burma under the social, economic
and political crises as well as severe oppression, imprisonment, torture
and killing by the regime is mush worse than before 1988.
(F) We believe that a tripartite dialogue between the election winning
party National League for Democracy, the military regime and ethnic
representatives will be the only way to solve the national crises and lead
the country towards to democracy.
(G) As per above-mentioned facts, we denounce the military regime's
announcement 1/2008 and 2/2008 as these statements are unable to realize
the real desire of the people and just intend to perpetuate the military
dictator****p.
(H) We, All Burma Monks' Alliance (ABMA), announce that we, along with all
democracy forces and grassroots people, will continue our struggle to help
the people of Burma to be free from general difficulties.
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