"The international community has repeatedly called for the junta to hold free and fair elections in 2010, as well as allow international monitors to observe, but this alone is an inadequate response to the overall political situation. Before focusing on the future, the international community must turn to the past and address the aspects of the 2008 Constitution that intrinsically flout democracy. First, the constitution was written without the consensus of stakeholders.1 Second,it was presented to a population where 69 percent claimed to have "no awareness of the details of the proposed constitution".2 Third, though the UN has documented a multitude of human rights violations on the parts of SLORC and the SPDC, Article 445 promises impunity for military.3 Thus, the very premise of the 2010 election as a step towards democracy is already compromised..."