Open Letter to
UN General Assembly
The
Falsehoods of the Thein Sein Regime
September 27, 2012
Honorable
Representatives and Leaders,
I am pleased and honored to address you
on behalf of the International Foundation for Burma National Congress (IFBNC). We
are very encouraged by the United Nations’ support for democratization, human
rights, and the rule of law in United Nations’ principles.
With integrity, let me inform you about
Thein Sein regime’s present position. The regime claims that it is changing Burma.
This is not to believed - it is just a military design or frame. We believe
that Thein Sein is a dictators and Than Shwe is one of junior generals. Burmese
military dictators established military rules and four political objectives,
four economic objectives, and four social objectives. To implement these objectives,
military dictators used the seven steps
road map as a tool towards their false claim of democracy formation. For
that reason they arbitrarily produced the 2008 sham constitution during the
time that 140,000 victims were killed by the Nargis cyclone.
Today’s Burma problem is the 2008 sham
constitution. There are main three obstacles for a genuine democracy direction:
Burma Army is above the constitution; there are no transitional justice measures
in the political, economic, and social welfare systems; and ethnic minority
civil war still is being occurred in Kachin State and along the border. In
addition, we cannot practice constitutional rights and cannot amend military
provisions. The constitution must base on a federal principles and rights for
minority ethnic groups. I believe that a democratic government is one that is of
the people, for the people, and by the people. Today the Burmese people need a
new democratic society. The UN should support people power movement for
changing Burmese society. We need democratic principles in our constitution
such as basic public opinion, good governance, transparency, human rights, and
market economy reform. For national reconciliation, we need to do several
things: imposing general amnesty law and justice; stopping all of recent military
road map process and abolishment of the 2008 constitution; forming a truth and
reconciliation commission for investigating human rights abuses; to hold an all
inclusive federal conference; and setting up of a new constitution. We called for
international support during our 24 years of our peaceful movement for
democratic change in Burma. Consequently the United Nations passed resolutions
concerned about Burma.
The UN community should review these General
Assembly resolutions (1991 to 2011) because we have not yet achieved the core democratic
principles. For example the 1990 election results and tripartite dialogue
process disappeared in the current political process. It is very important process
for national reconciliation for Burma’s future.
We want genuine democracy. On the other hand the Thein Sein regime still
is manipulating the political process towards a sham transition that is not
genuinely democratic. We need pre-transitional justice framework that will lead
to genuine democracy for Burma.
We request the international community to
pay attention to the following points: support for genuine democratic process;
support for a people power movement. We demand that the Thein Sein Regime do
the following: stop forced relocation; stop the denial of workers’ rights; setup
a social welfare system; stop arresting of democracy activists; stop the war in
the Kachin region and along the borders.
Sincerely,
(Signed)
Ye Htut
President
of Executive Directors
International
Foundation for Burma National Congress
Copy to:
1).
All United Nations Permanent Representatives (178 countries)
2).
UNGS, US, UK, Germany, Japan, India, EC, ASEAN and other Political Leaders
