Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Major dire crisis may result in Burma

Burma’s Committee Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP), warned that there could soon be a major dire crisis resulting from current social, economic and political problems in the country. The comment of the CRPP came after assessing current social, economic and general political problems during a meeting held on 3 April in Rangoon, which was attended by all its 13 unfettered members except Thein Pe and Yan Kying Maung. When asked how the CRPP managed to come to the conclusion that the country is heading towards a major crisis, its secretary Aye Tha Aung said: “Currently, we see that inflation in Burma has affected the survival of the majority the population and caused general commodity prices including basic consumer goods to rise with speed. The impacts of the rising commodity prices are affecting ordinary class and middle class very badly. We are not in a position to help them effectively on this matter. As a responsible organisation, the current ruling government is not in a position to take effective action either and we discussed that we are very, very concerned on behalf of the people.” Aye Tha Aung added that lawless behaviours and extra-judicial killings of civilians by the authorities are increasing in the country during this year, referring to recent murders of civilians by the police and uniformed authorities. “It is very important that there is a rule of law in a country.

According to the situations in what had happened, the personnel who are upholding laws themselves are not acting in accordance with the laws, and moreover, their lawless and callous (behaviours) are very dangerous to the public and (opposition) politicians. Therefore, it would (not) be possible to say that those attended (the meeting) will not be subjected to the callous actions, and we discussed how to avoid these callous actions as much as we could.”
Aye Tha Aung also said that the remark of the generals which said that Aung San Suu Kyi is not relevant to the situation in Burma anymore, shows that the junta has no desire to negotiate with the National League for Democracy (NLD) and ethnic national parties which were elected by the majority of the population. - Democratic Voice of Burma