"The Global Justice Center (GJC) and the Burma Lawyer?s Council (BLC)1 acknowledge the dedicated efforts of the various Special Rapporteurs on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar. Central to the mandate of your office is furthering the international human rights and humanitarian precepts under the UN Charter. The human rights initiatives that currently frame your interaction with the military rulers of Burma are based on fully embracing the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008) (hereinafter the 2008 constitution).2 We are writing this letter as a matter of urgency to alert you to the fact that by supporting the 2008 constitution, which facilitates Burma?s serious and continuing breaches of peremptory norms, you are at risk of violating your mandate. Any acceptance of the 2008 constitution violates jus cogens rules3 and the UN?s established policy4 since the constitution embodies permanent amnesties and other serious breaches in violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions..."