Village heads to monitor polling booths
Zomi
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Zomi says:
How free and free would the referendum be?
Here is an evidence why it would never be free and fair.
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Village heads to monitor polling booths
Khonumthung News
15 April 2008.
The Burmese military junta has forcibly assigned village heads in Zomi
(Chin) state, Burma to monitor polling booths for the referendum to approve
the constitution to be held on May 10.
U Kyaw Ze Ya, Chairman of the Township Peace and Development Council of
Paletwa Township in Zomi (Chin) state on March 24 organized a training
programme related to the referendum to approve the draft constitution. Over
100 village heads from Paletwa Township were summoned to attend the
training.
In the invitation letter for the training programme, the authorities were
also said to have mentioned the penalty in the event of failing to be
present at the training programme, said a village head who requested
anonymity for reasons of security.
On April 1, the local authorities forced all trainees to sign the approval
agreeing to accept the draft constitution. The trainees were assigned to
monitor polling booths during the voting to approve the constitution at the
referendum, said a village head.
The village heads were also assigned to persuade the people, by whatever
means, to cast the "Yes" vote.
Military officials from the battalion based in the area will accompany the
village heads who will start campaigning among the locals soon to cast the
"Yes" vote during the referendum.
The village heads were told to prevent any campaigning for casting the 'No'
vote in the referendum by any organization in their respective areas. In
case, there is any anti-referendum campaign in the area, the village heads
will have to inform the concerned authorities immediately.
Meanwhile, most people in Chin state are ready to cast the 'No' vote if the
referendum is held freely and fairly.
"I will vote 'No' if we can cast the vote freely without any vendetta from
the authorities. Most of the people in Chin state are ready to oppose the
draft constitution. If they force and threaten us to vote 'Yes', the people
are likely to vote 'Yes'," a local from Chin state said.
A delegate from Nay Pi Daw, the new capital of Burma, is likely to visit
Chin state in the last week of April to oversee the situation in the region.
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