Dissidents line up to fight Myanmar constitution

By Ed Cropley - MAE SOT, Thailand (Reuters) – A referendum on an army-made constitution in Myanmar will be a “major battlefield” between the junta and a people wanting to be rid of military rule, the country’s biggest dissident group said on Monday.
In a statement given to Reuters in the Myanmar-Thai border town of Mae Sot, the “88 Generation Students” — named after a brutally suppressed 1988 uprising — called on the former Burma’s 53 million people to reject the charter in the May vote.

Do we have these Promises? – Stanley Aung

Dated Panglong, the 12th
February 1947

A conference having been held at Panglong, attended by certain Members of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma, all Saohpas and representative of the Shan States, the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills: