"Burma?s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), recently approved The Republic of the Union of Myanmar Constitution in a sham referendum held on May 10 and 24, 2008. According to the SPDC?s roadmap, elections will be held in 2010 to provide for a ?discipline-flourishing genuine multiparty democracy” as outlined in the Constitution. The Burma Lawyers? Council contends that any optimism about the election?s prospects is ill-founded for two reasons: (1) the elections will be held in accordance with the constitution, which was produced and passed by the regime in an undemocratic drafting process and illegitimate referendum; and (2) the Constitution?s provisions demonstrate the government?s blindness to the entitlement of the people of Burma to their basic human rights ? providing more reason to weep than to hope..."