Interview with Dr Myint Cho, director of MPU

DVB ( September 1, 2003 )

The National Convention which was suspended since 1996 due to its uselessness is an attempt to annul and destroy the result of the 1990 election. In that convention, among 702 delegates, only 99 real representatives out of 485 were allowed to attend. There was no way that one could represent the wish of the people effectively.

There was no right to express, to discuss and to put forward ideas freely in accordance with democracy. The delegates were forced to agree with the policies prepared in advanced by the military junta. We have been rejecting the National Convention because the regime has been trying to foster a constitution which guarantees the survival of military dictatorship and it is very dangerous for the future of Burma and there is nothing good for the people of Burma.

The MPU will continue to work on our original action of rallying the international community through the UN resolutions for the implementation of the result of 1990 by whatever means we could use. As the SPDC will only try to draft the constitution for the survival of military dictatorship in the proposed National Convention, in whatever form to deceive people, I want the international community and people in Burma to oppose the regime’s trickeries and them to bravely support of the efforts of the MPU.