Aung San Suu Kyi supports all equal rights for the ethnic nationalities, while the military leaders are unwilling to do so. It's one of the reasons the military obstinately declines to release Aung San Suu Kyi and constantly exercises pressure to weaken the ethnic political parties and ceased-fire groups.
There is a big gap between the military junta and the NLD. To the military autocrats, allowing the ethnic minorities to enjoy equal political, social and economic rights is a hazard that could lead to à ??disintegration of the union' but to the NLD and ethnic alliance parties allowing equal rights to ethnic minorities will guarantee peace, stability and prosperity of the country.
That is why people, including ethnicities, see in Aung San Suu Kyi a promising hope for change. Her continued incarceration is therefore seen as an attempt to annihilate the political aspirations of the people of Burma who stand for political change.
Now, the junta's à ??policy of disintegration of the union' is starting a new war game with the ethnic ceased fire groups on the Sino-Burma border. Even China seems to be sandwiched between the junta and the United Wa State Army (UWSA) as both depend on its assistance. But, defeating the Kokang was a tough message to the UWSA by the Burmese junta. It might also be a warning sign to China not to intervene in UWSA's internal affairs.
To some analysts, if the junta has a plan to postpone its 2010 elections, it will declare war on UWSA. Confinement of Aung San Suu Kyi and 2100-plus political prisoners, wars on ethnic minorities, and appeasement policy towards the US through Webb mission, are the outcome of the unfolding constitutional crisis.
Without including in the 2008 constitution all stakeholders, Burma will not prevail. Innocent people have been victimized in the ongoing
constitutional crisis.
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