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Do not refrain from voting. Go ahead and vote NO.
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From: cin piang
To: blessed zomi
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:49 AM
Subject: [ ZOGAMNET ] Burmese Embassy in Singa****e Prepares for Absentee
Referendum Voting
Burmese Embassy in Singa****e Prepares for Absentee Referendum Voting
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By MIN LWIN Thursday, April 17, 2008
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The Burmese Embassy in Singa****e has sent a letter to Burmese citizens
urging them to vote absentee in the constitutional referendum from April
25
to 29, while an anonymous telephone message is urging people to vote "No."
"We the Burmese people can vote "No" at the Myanmar [Burma] embassy..
Please
pass this message to all your friends and take this exercise seriously for
our freedom," says the telephone message, which is being widely
distributed
in the Burmese community.
The embassy letter sent to Burmese citizens was dated April 10, urging
them
to bring their Burmese pass****t or citizen do***ents as identification. An
estimated 50,000 Burmese citizens live in Singa****e.
"The letter was signed by Kyaw Swe Tint, the Burmese counselor," said a
Burmese man from Tuas South on the outskirts of Singa****e, who received a
letter on Thursday.
He said the letter was sent by air mail to Burmese citizens who paid their
income tax at the embassy.
Ko Hla, an information technology engineer in Singa****e, said Burmese
citizens are likely to vote "No" on the referendum or to not vote.
"I haven't heard of anyone who will give a 'Yes' vote," Ko Hla told The
Irrawaddy on Thursday.
"As a Burmese citizen, the constitutional referendum is im****tant for me
to
vote," said Myo Htet a construction engineer in Singa****e. "Even the
people
inside Burma will vote 'No.' Why can't I vote 'No' too?"
A worker at a Singa****e ****pping yard said he will not go to the embassy
to
vote. "I get no leave from my boss, so I can't," he said.
Meanwhile, the Burmese Embassy in the United States of America is
collecting
names of people eligible to vote based on an income tax list.
Millions of migrants live outside of Burma, but the Burmese regime has not
yet announced whether they all will be allowed to vote in the referendum.
More than one million Burmese migrants live in Thailand.
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