7 Things International Activists need to Demand from Aung-San-Suu-Kyi

By Dr Maung Zarni

November 10, 2015

Now Aung San Suu Kyi will be "Above-the-President" leader of the landslide winning soon-to-be ruling party, all the activists, NGOs, government officials, journalists and researchers around the world need to demand from the newly elected government, the following: 

1) immediate and unconditional end to the slow burning genocide of the Rohingya. (UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar in 1994 ? was created as the direct response to the military's persecution of the Rohingya); 

2) immediate and unconditional release of all jailed dissidents including farmers, workers, ethnic minority activists, monks, journalists, etc.; 

3) repeal Thein Sein's 4 proto-Nuremberg (Nazi-like, that is) law. 

4) kick-start the nationwide ceasefire talks while halting all military attacks on the ethnic minority communities and organizations; 

5) set up a National Commission for Reconciliation and make plans to hold nationwide dialogue, truth and reconciliation discussions; 

6) review all investment deals and development projects; and 

7) create a National Environmental Commission and put moratorium on all resource-extractive projects starting with mining, logging, and hydropower extracting.