2008 so-called constitution is not qualified to be a constitution in any sense. If you show this to civilised society or one of the university for scrutiny, it will fail badly and not to be recommended for amendment. There is serious flaw as it promote Burmese military as a vanguard, champion, superman, and fault-free universal default patriot. We can not say that Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Theresa as the all-time no-mistake decision makers during their life times and they can`t be above the law though they attain bigger than life status for their near-saint life-long tolerance. The military junta had committed crime against humanity and Genocide only to be saved from successful prosecution by International Criminal Court because of support from equally evil power of Russia/ China. How can one guarantee above the law status to murderous Junta of Burma for ruling of Burma. Does Than Shwe understand Legislative,Judicial, Administrative; three pillars of Democracy rule? All the high ranking officers above the director general must be severely put under scrutiny of public, publishers, media, and parliament select committees for approval and head of state got only intelligent and titular role to play in appointments of these important public SERVANTS. Appointment of head of government must be made only by direct approval of public vote after lengthy debates in news and media. Military got the role to defend the country and constitution the same as every citizen of country and no special role for anyone in the union. Military must never ever march against the public, country, and parliament for whatsoever reasons and it should be enshrined in constitutions as a heading of clause 1 especially for Burma. Public and Parliaments got the most responsibility and duty to defend the country from falling into hell and military needs to follow the order from the people and head of government. Top Military General must retire after 4 years of service and promoted to become public servants if they got the distinguish quality of love for country. Again select committees will scrutinize the appointment. In short, military must forget their wrong idea of vanguard of the country. become the true servants of citizens. Check and balance of power must be practised seriously in this corrupted society and ant-corruption measures must be put in several place. No one is above the law. You break the law and even Kings and Queens will go to jail. Discrimination of sex, race, gender and belief of any kind must be prohibited and any citizen of Burma whether primarily or naturalised must be entitle to become the head of government if he/she passed the terrible public scrutiny by direct votes. I find the 2008 constitution to be a complete flaw from A to Z and wonder how it become the law. Than Shwe must be very selfish or severely mad.
I would put in one simple word in regards to your description: “democratization”. It is a long road-map that requires sizable amount of sacrafices that most third countries have to go through. We find good examples like collapse of the Soviet Union and other east European nations. To this day, there are few countries which are still under partial and complete dictatorship like China, Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia in Asia and some central African nations. It takes decades if not century to gain democracy. Burma (so called Myanmar) is historically primitive in political awakening in her history. There was a very narrow window period during and right after she gained independence in 1948. Burma was probably a leader in formation of non-aligned movement and very popular among western nations; along with India. The idea of non-aligned movement was originated by the late Bogyoke Aung San followed by the then Prime Minster U Nu. The nation was about to re-build with direct investment from western nations; even the nation was filled with ethnical/civil unrest. The hope was still there even right after Gen. Ne Win took control. But it faded while we witness the growing beurocracy and dictatorship. Now Burma is sinking at the drastic pace. Once most resourceful nation in the region has now turned into econimically and socio-culturally unsurvivable state: corruption, prosecution with no proper judiciary system, etc. Burma is in DARKEST AGE in her history. But we have key answer to this: DE-MILITARIZATION!
kai
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timothy
March 14, 2010 at 4:58 am
2008 so-called constitution is not qualified to be a constitution in any sense. If you show this to civilised society or one of the university for scrutiny, it will fail badly and not to be recommended for amendment. There is serious flaw as it promote Burmese military as a vanguard, champion, superman, and fault-free universal default patriot. We can not say that Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Theresa as the all-time no-mistake decision makers during their life times and they can`t be above the law though they attain bigger than life status for their near-saint life-long tolerance. The military junta had committed crime against humanity and Genocide only to be saved from successful prosecution by International Criminal Court because of support from equally evil power of Russia/ China. How can one guarantee above the law status to murderous Junta of Burma for ruling of Burma. Does Than Shwe understand Legislative,Judicial, Administrative; three pillars of Democracy rule? All the high ranking officers above the director general must be severely put under scrutiny of public, publishers, media, and parliament select committees for approval and head of state got only intelligent and titular role to play in appointments of these important public SERVANTS. Appointment of head of government must be made only by direct approval of public vote after lengthy debates in news and media. Military got the role to defend the country and constitution the same as every citizen of country and no special role for anyone in the union. Military must never ever march against the public, country, and parliament for whatsoever reasons and it should be enshrined in constitutions as a heading of clause 1 especially for Burma. Public and Parliaments got the most responsibility and duty to defend the country from falling into hell and military needs to follow the order from the people and head of government. Top Military General must retire after 4 years of service and promoted to become public servants if they got the distinguish quality of love for country. Again select committees will scrutinize the appointment. In short, military must forget their wrong idea of vanguard of the country. become the true servants of citizens. Check and balance of power must be practised seriously in this corrupted society and ant-corruption measures must be put in several place. No one is above the law. You break the law and even Kings and Queens will go to jail. Discrimination of sex, race, gender and belief of any kind must be prohibited and any citizen of Burma whether primarily or naturalised must be entitle to become the head of government if he/she passed the terrible public scrutiny by direct votes. I find the 2008 constitution to be a complete flaw from A to Z and wonder how it become the law. Than Shwe must be very selfish or severely mad.
မောင်မိုးညို
March 15, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I would put in one simple word in regards to your description: “democratization”. It is a long road-map that requires sizable amount of sacrafices that most third countries have to go through. We find good examples like collapse of the Soviet Union and other east European nations. To this day, there are few countries which are still under partial and complete dictatorship like China, Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia in Asia and some central African nations. It takes decades if not century to gain democracy. Burma (so called Myanmar) is historically primitive in political awakening in her history. There was a very narrow window period during and right after she gained independence in 1948. Burma was probably a leader in formation of non-aligned movement and very popular among western nations; along with India. The idea of non-aligned movement was originated by the late Bogyoke Aung San followed by the then Prime Minster U Nu. The nation was about to re-build with direct investment from western nations; even the nation was filled with ethnical/civil unrest. The hope was still there even right after Gen. Ne Win took control. But it faded while we witness the growing beurocracy and dictatorship. Now Burma is sinking at the drastic pace. Once most resourceful nation in the region has now turned into econimically and socio-culturally unsurvivable state: corruption, prosecution with no proper judiciary system, etc. Burma is in DARKEST AGE in her history. But we have key answer to this: DE-MILITARIZATION!