Military
officers take party line on constitution draft to the public
Independent Mon News Agency
Army officers from the Southeast Command Military Training
Battalion No. 4 have been talking to people regarding the military government’s
party line on the constitution in public shops and while meeting people.
“The military officers in Southern Mon state treated the people with
good relations as they wanted to talk to them to explain that their top leaders
are drawing up a constitution which international people would accept, in tea
shops, on trips and while meeting
people,” Nai Jorn, an IMNA
source, reported.
“There were no such positive actions by the army officers before,
and many officers said the same things to people,” he added.
However, every parliamentary representative is not to be
elected by the people; some representatives are appointed by the top military
leaders, Southeast Command commander Major General Thura
Myit Aung explained to Union of Solidarity and
Development Association (USDA) members from southern Burma last June 22.
In the parliament, 25% of the 440 representatives must be from the
army, and the country is to be ruled by the president, according to his
explanation.
Fifty-six percent of the the 224
representatives in ethnic state parliaments are military people and that was
also drafted by the military government.
“If we use a democratic system, every representative in parliament
must be elected by the people. Nobody can appoint or handpick them,” said
“In my experience, there are very few military representatives in
the senates of democratic countries, and some countries haves no military
representatives,”
Mon State Township USDA authorities also explain the drafted
constitution to people when they meet them, the IMNA source reported.
Many USDA members, handpicked as representatives, attended the
National Convention and supported the draft constitution, an ethnic
representative handpicked by the army wrote to IMNA.
According to his letter, about 1% of representatives attending the
NC understood about the constitution and most of them were not interested in
politics.
Like USDA members and army officers, the police also take the
party line while talking to people in public.
Since the
military sacked the Military Intelligence, the army is more polite while
communicating with people,
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