As NLD Doesn’t Contest, It Still Has

the Mandate of the People

Min Khin Kyaw
Friday, 7 May 2010
Burma is a country of many indigenous people. The people of Burma are those people.

The people of Burma must have the right of association – whether that is for political
purposes or religious purposes or any other social purposes. Within the moral codes of
conducts globally accepted as civilized activities, of the developed intelligence, within human
right framework, the people of Burma, whoever they are, whether a prisoner or a student or a
citizen, must be able to practice their natural rights.

The people of Burma must have that right of association in a democratic society.

Wherever the right of association is suppressed for political purposes, that place must
be recognized as being under an uncivilized, unjust and oppressive regime.

As long as the people of Burma remains unable to compose a just judiciary system and a
constitution toward a free society with all the conditions in which all the natural rights of a
society is present, Burma will remain as an oppressed society.

NLD is the party that has the mandate of the people to organize a government. This party has
political right to conduct political process of national affairs. This party has political right to
keep its identity given by the people in the 1990s Election.

Burma has been under an illegitimate military junta. That junta has no mandate to call an
election. Any election held by this junta is illegal – unless it provides justifiable conditions
and completely open to all participators and observers free access. The junta has been blunt in
its one-sided conducts: its constitution and its election law in which it only positions its
pieces, in which the people of Burma are given no position. Obviously the election is a
general’s skin that is used to cover the rotting dead elephant.

Despite these one-sided conducts of the junta, a party like NLD should be let remain as a
political party – in which the reality of the election could be obscured by the presence of the
winner party of the last election. As the coming election has no participators, except those
who are forced to sacrifice their conscience for their existence, as the threats of the authority
is the reality which is the only freedom in Burma, the election will be unreal, only fictional.
Any election that has no real participators cannot be recognised as an election.

The coming election is nothing more than an attempt of the junta to lubricate its
position in the mechanism of the regional and global politics.
The military junta is illegal in Burma naturally. The election held under this junta will never
be legal thus. Some people enjoy injustice. They may be the members of governments. They
may be governments themselves. Whether they accept the junta of Burma, its constitution
and its result of coming election, the junta of Burma remains illegal within the natural law of
Burma.

No matter how the junta oppresses the people of Burma to accept it as a legal government,
the junta cannot get it. No matter how the junta ignores the result of the 1990’s Election, the
result will remain as the authority and sovereignty of the people of Burma given to the NLD
to establish a just legal system and a proper constitution. No matter how the junta forces them
to vote again and again under threats of life and loses of properties and any other unjustifiable
brutality, the military junta will remains illegal – whoever its head becomes.

The recent election law is illegal. The law has flaws in which no rights and freedom are
included. The law of the junta is only the law of the junta; it’s not written by the people with
the proper process were taken place. In rights rid-off constitution, justice cannot be
established.

Thus, the NLD has become illegal to the junta only. The NLD has not become illegal to
the people.

As long as Burma exists, the result of the 1990’s election will exist as the NLD is the winner.
As long as the people of Burma remain with the 1990s election result, as long as the people
of Burma keep that result as one of their political identities, NLD will live on.

The mandate the people have established with their votes cannot be removed by any means
from reality. This reality will go on into the history Burma. That mandate will exist as long as
the people of Burma exist. That mandate can be practiced as long as the people of Burma
recognise it.