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Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) New Year Resolution
2nd Jan 2013

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) New Year Resolution

2nd January 2013

Happy New Year 2013!

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) would like to send our best wishes to all the people around the world. May you be happy, healthy and wealthy on this auspicious New Year! When looking back, 2012 was a year of hope and it was a year of mixed emotion. We are very encouraged to see democratic openness, embracing more economic reforms, achieving peace deals with armed ethnic groups and having seen removing sanction on Burma. At the same time, we are very saddened to learn that military offensive against KIA has been intensified. We would like to take this opportunity to review, evaluate and implement working for democratisation of Burma to build peaceful and prosperous Burma.

Kachin Conflict:

In order to achieve genuine national reconciliation in Burma, we must have peace in Burma. Fighting between Burma central government and Kachin armed group have been the major challenge working for democratisation of Burma. We call for all parties concerned to work the utmost achieving peace realities in Burma. Finding peace is two ways communication and we would like to stress here that both KIA and Burmese army must have the sincerity and genuine desire to see peace and prosperity in Kachin state. We are very much concerned that children, women and elderly are paying the price dearly. These disadvantaged people fleeing from the fighting between two armies are facing very difficult hardships. We are very saddened to learn that there is no sign of reaching peace agreement yet between Kachin Independence Army and Burmese Army. Without peace, a nation cannot work fully pulling herself out from poverty. Achieving ever lasting peace, unity in harmony and equality in diversity, should be one of the most important objectives for KIA and Burmese government.

Arakan Crisis:

Last year Arakan crisis had been the major concerns for all the people of Burma as well as for the global leaders. We reaffirm our position that Arakan crisis is immigration crisis and it must be dealt in accordance with 1982 Burmese Citizenship Law. We call for all parties concerned to respect democracy, human rights and rule of law handling Bengali illegal immigration issues. Burma Democratic Concerns (BDC) has determined that it is time for Tomas Quintana to vacate his post as United Nations Human Rights Envoy to Burma. Collusion between Tomas Quintana and the so-called Rohingya Bengali was all too apparent by people around the world extinguishing impartiality and credibility of the envoy.

Education:

Burma must empower every citizen with education which is the best investment for future of Burma while ensure supporting welfares of teachers, teaching carriers, teaching environment and education standard in Burma. Burma must educate her citizens with their rights, responsibilities and necessity of taking responsibilities in order to lay down the concrete democratic foundation for future generations of Burma so as to implement development strategies many years to come bearing in mind that Burma has gone through nearly half the century of successive various dictatorships and military dictatorships together with armed conflicts. It must be one of Burma’s primary tasks to educate children with knowledge, technology and employable skills. Burma must build the society of dialogue, research, reasoning, question mark, boosting self-confident and nurturing positive attitude. Education starts at home and it is the essential part of the nation building process to educate families with parenting skills, child development and nurturing children. Since 90% of population are Buddhist and accordingly Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist monks play essential vital role in Burmese society. Therefore, Burma must work promoting monastery education and support the welfare of the Buddhist monks. The Government of Burma should introduce a number of strategies to improve the country’s education system. Burma’s Education and Development Project should be established as soon as possible to supply more rural primary school classrooms with new libraries, books and primary school teachers as well as providing them with training. Burma should set up Nationwide and Global Education Networks to flourish education institutions in Burma.

Environment:

Burma must protect and work improving environment for our future generations. We must work to protect the waters, lakes, streams and rivers not to be polluted and not to be dried up while ensure protecting people from flooding and water erosion. Burma must anticipate controlling the quality of our air bearing in mind that the potential growth of urbanisation and industrialisation can increase air pollution. Burma must protect forests, biodiversity and natural resources. Burma must work to gradually end excessive irresponsible logging, cutting forests and clearing land for agriculture. Burma must increase efforts to afforestation while Burma must work to gradually ban exporting teaks, logs, raw wood, cane, bamboo, endangered plants, animals and forest products.

Constitution Amending:

Working to review the controversial 2008 constitution which gives absolute power to military commander in chief– is still major concern for people of Burma. We must work all together to amend the constitutional clauses which are undemocratic and authoritative. We must work to amend the constitutional clauses which give the military commander in chief the power to directly choose military officers sitting in the parliament occupying 25% of the seats. Addition, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) calls for amending the constitutional clauses which prohibit Buddhist monks’ right to vote in Burma which is totally undemocratic and unacceptable.

Corruption:

Burma must alleviate corruption. The worst form of corruption is corruption of immigration control personnel. Government revenue can be diverted away from basic services by corruption. Preventive measures include requiring public officials to disclose earnings and assets and stricter rules on funding to political parties and electoral campaigns. The prevalence of corruption and abuse of power in many justice systems most greatly affects those who are poor and most vulnerable and it must be amended.

Ethnics Affairs:

All the people of Burma must work to achieve peace, political stability, economic development, and better education for all the ethnics’ people of Burma. Burma should seek support from international institutions to support rural development, education, improving the live ability of border areas, ethnic areas and middle Burma dry zone, ensuring sound management within the mining sector, sustainable infrastructure development, environmental protection, policy development and water, soil and air pollution abatement measures. The overall goal of the rural program should be to reduce the vulnerability of farmers from risk as well as to protect and extend gains made to provide relief in cases of climate emergencies, micro-finance, telecommunications and social services to rural residents. Given the country’s vast and challenging geography, the cost of providing rural communications infrastructure is high. The lack of ICT services affected the rural population in multiple ways, limiting social communication and access to both information and education media, and delaying response time in the case of emergencies. With the infrastructure and service should be now in place across the country, many more rural residents will be able to communicate more easily, and benefit from educational and commercial access to the Internet. Ethnic people should be able to preserve their language, culture, environment, food, and customs. Ethnic people should have the rights to participate in the decision making process of managing resources, finance, protecting forests and environment.

Planning Development:

Burma should draft adopting the Comprehensive National Development Strategy. The document should set a 15-years development path: the first phase (5 years) should focus on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and actively developing the country’s economy; the second phase (5 years) should be dedicated to transitioning to a knowledge-based economy and the third phase (5 years) should be dedicated to exporting professionals, knowledge, education, skills and technology.International trade can be enormous importance for the open economy of Burma. Foreign Direct Investments are important factors in developing a nation and Burma should work welcoming the FDI while ensure protecting labour rights, environment and culture. Legislative reform, institution-building, support for legal assistance, access to justice, labour, employment, small business, housing rights, property and land governance, reproductive health, and environmental protection must be implemented to develop Burma. International trade can be enormous importance for the open economy of Burma.

Implementation:

Civilians’ participation would be the key for the decentralisation, democratization and development of Burma. While emphasising what should be done by state, it is also important to remember that the importance of everyone’s participation, importance of empowering new generations, importance of promoting education, importance of citizen capacity building and importance of strategic future planning. It is the fact that it will take time to reform and decentralise government mechanisms which would increase responsibility, accountability and transparency. This should be simultaneous and gradual evolutionary process and, from time to time, should re-evaluate reform process so as to achieve the best possible outcomes and, most importantly, people must have the right to voice their concerns on every aspect of democratisation process. Burma is facing challenges ahead and needs the concerted efforts of the all citizens of Burma to meet these challenges cooperating closely together with UN, EU, ASEAN and international actors. These should be the top agendas for the development of Burma as well as democratisation process.

Happy New Year to You All!

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Blank Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) have the firm determination, dedication and devotion to keep on working until the democracy restore in Burma.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) believes that the solution for the crisis of Burma is restoring democracy, human rights and rule of law. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is equipped with participants who had political background and in depth knowledge of Burma issues. They had experiences in the past and engaging in current activities.

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