Military Regime’s Conspiracy with USDA/Kyantphunt for Sham Constitution

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_ By Mai Aik Phone (Palaung State Liberation Front PSLF)

Our Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) has been organizing palaung people to do the following: _

• We should NOT support the constitution organized by the SPDC’s artificial national convention.
• We should support the UN Secretary-General’s leading role in creating fair and just dialogues within Burma.
• Prodemocracy activists and ethnic nationalities should support Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her leading role fully to initiate political dialogue amongst all groups.
• We should reject any referendum held by the military junta.
• If the military junta forces a referendum, we should request respective representatives from the United Nations, and other countries, to monitor the election closely.
• We should not cooperate with the SPDC’s Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and oppose all events of the USDA.

USDA monopolizes regional governing; people from regional USDA are now included in regional governing bodies, and the military regime and the USDA members are trying to put pressure on local people to pass the referendum completely in all regions.

The USDA is trying to act as follows in the Paluang regions: _

• Dominate the governance of township and villages
• Pressure locals to support their organization and activities
• Controlling loans and permission to use motorcycles
• Making recommendations about the national ID cards

In the future, the USDA intend to: _

• Pay a visit to the hilly regions to issue the registration cards.
• Allow only USDA members to have motorcycle license permits.
• Organize its members to coordinate how the road map movement issues are implemented.
• If military regime’s road map scheme is successful, the number of USDA members will increase, and they intend to participate at the future elections together with other main rival political parties, (to form a government itself).

Military Regime’s Referendum Plans:

• The National Convention’s drafing committee has written a final draft constitution and the military regime is persuading representatives from the various groups to vote in favor of this constitution.
• At many locations, the military junta is placing USDA members in the area to organize favorable votes.
• They will take inappropriate actions to exert pressure during the referendum, and they will also take advantage of the unstable internal situation.