Why Myanmar needs democratically elected Government

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_ By Myo Thu

Please accept the true cause of why Myanmar is poor. It is because of military government, everybody knows it. If the military handed over power to election winning party after election in 1990 and Myanmar went democratic way, Myanmar economy would have been managed better. There also may not be economic sanctions.

Military government betrayed Burma. They broke their promise over Burmese people. Shamelessly dragged on national convention for 14 years and drew the proposed constitution without participation by people’s representatives. During that period military officials are enjoying fruits of corruption.

If a junior military commander is not corrupted and cannot offer millions of kyats of gift money to regional military commander, he will be dismissed. The regional military commanders in turn have to offer hunderds of millions kyats of bribe money to the commander in chief Gen. Than Shwe and his deputy Gen. Maung Aye. Otherwise they will not last long in their regional commander posts.

A military official can steal tens of millions of kyats per month from public funds. Although not all officials cannot get that amout, there are many officials getting that much amount from their corruption. How many captains, majors, colonels and generals in Myanmar? How many billions kyat are being stolen from Myanma’s Budget by those guys for so many years now?

Some top Generals in important positions are getting billions of kyats from their crony businessmen who want to get lucrative construction projects. There is no fair competition in Myanmar’s businesses.

Of course there is no freedom, no right to talk about their corruption; no law, no court to sue them for their corruptions; Myanmar is utterly damaged by lawless greedy generals.

Therefore people need democracy and fredom of speech; and that’s why military generals are afraid to practice democracy. They do not want opposition parties to point out their corruptions and their lawless actions. In military ruled Myanmar there is no serious political opposition, and no one has any right to say anything about military generals’ corruption. So military government can practice boundaryless corruption and Myanmar has to suffer.

SPDC military regime should stop their selfishness, and think for the country and let a people’s elected civilian government rule the country freely and fairly without any military intervention. Please stop arresting democracy activists; release them and let them help build the country.