Make honest men of generals

They invaded Shan State in 1952, ostensibly to remove the Kuomintang forces that had been using it as a base to retake China that was lost to Mao Zedong’s communist forces in 1949, but actually to occupy it. Since then all the promises of Panglong that was singed in 1947 by Aung San: Total autonomy, democracy and human rights had all gone down the drain.
 
In 1990, they held, to their credit, a free and fair election, where they were soundly defeated. However, instead of transferring state power to the winners of the general elections, they have kept their power up to this day.
 
The generals recently announced that 99.07% of the eligible voters had gone to the polls and 92.4% had voted in favor of its draft constitution, drawn by turning deaf ears to all well-meaning suggestions. It is preposterous that people who had given the generals only 10 seats in 1990 would be giving them such overwhelming support, after all their continued neglect of the people’s well-being.
 
Representatives meeting in Rangoon since yesterday should therefore bear these facts in mind when dealing with the generals:

• If they were ready to break any signed agreement like Panglong, they are ready to do anything to keep themselves in power
• They are no gentlemen. As such, negotiating gentlemen’s agreements with them should be out of the question
• The world must see to it that the generals will give full and free access to the Nargis affected areas and will not go back on their words before the job is done.