2.
Constitution is a covenant between the people, who have Sovereign Power of the
country and the government, which govern the country on behalf of the people.
In other word, it is a contractual agreement between both the government as
ruler and the people as being ruled.
3.
The SPDC is planning to hold a referendum to adopt the constitution that has
written without the participation of the people’s representatives. Ignoring the
people’s role is an insult to the people, who own the sovereign power of the
country.
4.
The effort of writing and ratifying a constitution unilaterally by a clique of
military dictators without the desire of the people is nothing other than
trying to protect the military dictatorship by means of constitution.
5.
The attempt to protect the military dictatorship by means of a constitution is
a breach to the “Panglong Agreement.” It is an act of diversion from General
Aung San’s principles and the Union’s spirit.
It is an attempt by the military cliques, who held a “Burmese Chauvinism,” as a
systematic strategy to annihilate the non-Burman ethnic nationalities in the Union.
6.
The attempt to adopt a constitution to lengthen the military dictatorship will
escalate more problems to the political crisis of the country. It will also
lengthen the 60 year long civil war caused by breaching the self-determination
rights of the ethnic nationalities. It will increase political oppression,
economic recession, and social crisis including all kinds of human rights
violation.
7.
Therefore, we would like to urge all citizens including students, youth, monks,
etc. who esteem democracy, human rights, equality and peaceful co-existence
among all nationalities, to vote against the coming SPDC’s referendum by
casting an absolute ‘Vote No’.
Contact persons:
Dr. Lian H. Sakhong
David Taw
General Secretary
Joint General Secretary
Tel: +66-081-029-6100
Tel: +66-081-306-4351
2008-04-07
ENC Information Team
P.O. Box (49)
Chiang Mai
University P.O
Chiang Mai 50202
Thailand
http://www.encburma.org/enc/enc_info.htm