The State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) had publicized a decree (13/92) and embarked on a course to convene a congregation dubbed the National Convention with an aim to promulgate a constitution. With a view to establish a long-term subjugation of Burma the SLORC had used strong-arm tactics in the convention.

An eminent and explosive constitutional crisis was engineered in place, and an attempt had been in order to render the military a legal entry into the politics of the country.

As understood and in all sincerity, we had made public our stand, as regards the emergence of a democratic constitution based on eight years of experience and the situation of Burma’s politics, on October 9, 1996.

Based on a decade of political experience, we, hereby, again express our view and for all organizations and forces who are striving for Burma’s democracy, to endeavor, in respect to the present situation where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy’s 13-point constructive proposal, with all future national interests in it, was met with SPDC’s (SLORC’s) destructive and violent reciprocation.

The Right to Promulgate

The SLORC had undertaken the responsibility and held the May 27, 1990 elections, but ignored the expressed desires of the people, in the form of the election results. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD representatives who had won the 1990 elections were the most responsible for the promulgation of the democratic constitution of Burma, for being chosen by the people also.

The Situation of the Country and the Obligation of the People

The civil war inferno had been raging till today as stemmed from differences of opinion since the country’s independence was declared.

The solution of this issue remained as a vital part in the promulgation of the democratic constitution.

Every individual who loved Burma and desired to restore democracy in the country should comprehend the bitter rigors and traumas of the civil strife and responsible for an earnest resolution in the matter.

The Civil War

Today, the people of Burma had sufficiently endured the bitter trauma of the civil war, under whatever pretexts, rendered. Conflict of interests in the establishment of the Union and then embryonic state of democracy in Burma had opened for the military an unhindered access and opportunity to legally manipulate the politics of the country.

The civil war had handed power into the hands of armed contingents with the habit of settling issues by armed might. The country’s products and natural resources were being squandered in vain and wasted in the flames of the civil war, in line with the whims of the military dictators.