Myanmar Scam

                    How can it be beautiful with this junta ?


Nexus
Aug 28, 2010
Newsgroups: soc.culture.burma

The new light of Myanmar repeatedly says the referendum is the decision of the majority ;

How can it be beautiful with this junta ?

The new light of Myanmar is the junta's mouth piece. No news paper in Burma is allowed to exist if they do not side with the generals. Information is not free; it is rudely bias. This alone is human rights violation. As a matter of fact the New Light of Myanmar editor has to publish what the junta says. The news paper press is full of military cronies writings articles to deliberately confuse the people, deceive the people with false hood; things that are not true and to discredit the opposition and belittle them.

The news paper is design and written to brain wash the simple people who are not abreast with current happenings. The new light of Myanmar says the referendum is the decision of the majority. This is bull shit. This is totally false. It is not the will of the people. The junta blames the NLD and every one else for its failures and disastrous performance. The performance of the junta during the recent cyclone is an outstanding example. The country is not stable; never will be whilst the people are unhappy and forced and pushed and shoved into doing it their way or else.

The generals talk of democracy with out understanding the true meaning of

the word. The delegates of the national convention were not a true representative of the people. They were hand picked by the generals who will say yes to them. The decisions made in the convention were undemocratic. The delegates were bulldozed into accepting what ever the generals put before them.

Majority of the people did not accept the outcome of the convention simply because it was unfair. The generals had the obligation to explain to the people the pros and cons of the convention; they avoided that and imposed an information black out. The people were not allowed to examine the outcome of the convention. There was no freedom of speech, press,association, assembly or information. Government servants, civil servants, the arm forces and all workers employed by the government, who were not supposed to be aligned to any party, were actually forced and intimidated into voting "yes" with promise of serious consequences and punishments, sack from employment, close down of business, harassments, threat, withdrawal of ration and entitlements, etc. if they vote NO. The USDA was visiting ordinary people's houses and forcing them to vote "yes" one day prior to the voting day. This is not democratic principles the junta has been proclaiming.

Before the referendum the junta promised the people that voting will be free and fair. The referendum voting was not democratic nor free and fair by any means. In fact it was grossly illegal the way the referendum was rigged disgracefully. Votes were stolen by the junta officials posted at the polling boots. The junta officials would approach simple people who did not understand and are fearful of these officials with cameras in their hand ready to black mail them if they voted No. These officials would follow the voters into the polling boot and force them to vote yes. The people were betrayed, the generals stole the referendum and with out shame or conscience proclaimed that they won the referendum by 92.8%. It is abundantly clear why the generals did not want overseas observers in the country to monitor the referendum. The referendum is illegal and cannot be accepted by the world community. And they continue to publish such falsehood in the New Light of Myanmar day after day repeatedly to psychologically deceive the people.

All this is absolutely wrong. The military dictatorship is ignoring calls by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly to enter into tripartite dialogue, and Than Shwe, the dictator of Burma, has repeatedly snubbed UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari. Instead, the regime is pushing ahead with elections in 2010 that will enact a constitution which will effectively legalize dictatorship, and do nothing to change the human rights and humanitarian situation in the country. The generals do these despicable deeds to keep them in power because they are afraid of the people and afraid of reprisals as the blood on their hands is still wet and it is refusing to dry. One wonders how these generals go to bed each night with such dreadful conscience.

Burma's referendum was cooked up by hand picked "Yes" men by the military junta. The constitution was drawn up to keep the military junta in power. On voting day the junta went to people homes and forced people to vote "yes" otherwise they will be punished and harassed.

 The junta went to government offices and forced the government employees to vote "yes" in front of them otherwise they will be sacked. At the polling boot the junta was entering the polling boot with the voter and forcing them to vote yes. All this was done against the will of the people under threat and intimidation.

The referendum was an absolute sham. The junta obviously got all the votes. Now Burma is going for election based on the referendum. Can the election results be legal ?. What is the best way to persuade the junta to reconsider openness, transparency and fairness in such a serious matter for the country?

In June 2009, the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is charged

with violating the terms of her house arrest when an uninvited American man swam secretly to her lakeside home and stayed for two days without her invitation. The entire world know that the charges are trumped up, the junta's trial is totally unjust and the generals have deliberately and unfairly pursued that line to lock her away and make her irrelevant in the 2010 election which is based on the illegal and sham referendum.

NOW, HOW CAN THE JUNTA'S 2010 ELECTION BE ACCEPTED WHEN IT IS BASED ON AN

ILLEGALLY RIGGED SHAM REFERENDUM.