"The International Crisis Group plays a unique and critical role in resolving and preventing conflict globally. Central to the ICG mission is its commitment to ensuring respect for the principles of international humanitarian law. We are writing this letter to call your attention to ICG?s radical departure from those principles in its August 2009 Report (the Report), ?Myanmar: Towards the Elections.” The Report urges that States and the United Nations endorse the military drafted Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008) (hereinafter 2008 constitution), assist Senior General Than Shwe with the 2010 elections, and engage as fully as possible with any ?new” government in Burma. These recommendations are fundamentally incompatible with jus cogens rules requiring States to take all possible measures to stop the ongoing violations of the Geneva Conventions and other serious breaches of peremptory norms in Burma..."