Well done! You did it again! Congratulations to the Burmese military junta for the success of their free, honest and fair national elections!

By Free Burma Coalition - Philippines • November 11, 2010

To:
The ruling military junta of Burma (The State Peace and Development Council)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The United Nations (UN) & The UN Security Council

First of all to the military generals of Burma, please accept our heartfelt congratulations on your recent ‘selection’ of the next batch of oppressors in Burma. Rest assured that your 2010 multi-party elections will be as historic as your 1990 national polls. We know that deep within your hearts, fooling your people twice through elections is a great honor.

We congratulate you also for successfully marginalizing Aung San Suu Kyi and her legion of supporters to participate in the elections. It is pretty obvious that you were so scared of “The Lady” because you know very well that she has the mandate and capacity to end your illegal reign of power.

We can’t help but admire the humble generals comprising the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). No doubt, all the generals possess the necessary talents beyond compare. From manipulating the drafting of the Constitution by cherry-picking the national convention delegates; ramming through this Constitution through a referendum amidst widespread misery engendered by the cyclone Nargis calamity in 2008; creating a panel of election commissioners issuing bizarre election laws and by ensuring that majority of the seats will be held by the military —all of these you did with ease and great passion, all of these you accomplished in the name of power and self-preservation.

Congratulations, General Tan Shwe for once again killing the peoples’ aspirations for genuine democracy and social justice. You are indeed a master of lies and deception. Your soldiers can kill one or more activist per day or rape all the women in one peaceful village for good measure, but it’s really amazing how you make the ASEAN and the United Nations stare numbly while you execute (pun intended) all these crimes.

Secondly, we would like to shake hands with the ASEAN and the UN for their miserable failure to immediately find concrete actions and solutions to Burma’s problems. Job well done.

Thank you ASEAN and UN for always allowing the ruling junta in Burma to get away with murder. With your ineffective engagement with the junta, human rights violations is the norm in Burma.

Thank you ASEAN for always slapping us with your “constructive engagement” with Burma even though that policy has proven nothing in bringing significant democratic change in Burma. Now, you have handed the generals a teflon shield to protect itself from international slings.

Wonder not, because it is you ASEAN, that gave Burma a license to remain intransigent to the calls for genuine change and democracy in that land. It is you, ASEAN that adopted Burma in 1997 and told us that Burma’s membership to the ASEAN fold will make a difference.

Our sincerest congratulations also to the United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Security Council. In 2006, with that undemocratic veto power wielded in the UNSC, Burma successfully escaped the possibility of international prosecution. Thank you UN and UNSC for consistently issuing toothless resolutions without concrete actions.

Of course, how could we miss thanking China, Russia and other states who always take a brave stand every time Burma is in trouble. Thank you China and other states for always reminding us that we should not be concerned whatever happens in Burma. That what is happening there is an “internal” concern only. Even if the SPDC slaughter their people, rape all their women, produce millions of drug addicts and prostituted women in the streets and border areas—and even if the junta violates all international norms and democratic standards, the world does not possess any single right to say something against the junta. Just like that.

Now that the Burma election is over, we urge you to quickly render recognition to the poll results. We urge you to waste no time proclaiming that the junta elections are indeed free, fair and credible as reported by the election commissioners appointed by the Burmese junta.

Just ignore the reports of massive cheating, tampering of ballots, political harassment, arrests and detention of activists. Those reports were baseless and malicious with an aim to simply undermine the credibility and sacredness of your elections. After all, those in power have unquestionable credibility. Gen. Tan Shwe is a dignified man just like Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Gen. Suharto of Indonesia, Gen. Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Adolf Hitler of Germany. The Burmese soldiers on the other hand are the guardians of democracy. In fact, in the 2007 Saffron revolution, the junta soldiers killed the monks, ordinary civilians and detained hundreds of activists just to defend Burma’s democracy.

The recent elections is the beginning of a new society in Burma. This calls for a celebration! Happy days are here again! Toast!

For inquiries, kindly refer to:

Gani Abunda: (+63)929-4109647,
Egoy N. Bans (+63)920 9132472

c/o Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID)
+632 435 2900; +632 9110205

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Well done! You did it again! Congratulations to the Burmese military junta for the success of their free, honest and fair national elections!

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