“Statement Regarding National Reconciliation

(2009)”
1. The alliance of seven groups led by NCGUB and NCUB
held a press conference at the UN building under the
name of Burmese Democratic forces on August 7th 2009.
At the conference they declared themselves as the leading
democratic group and presented the vision of the
National Reconciliation process. We have no connection
with those groups and we will not accept them as leading
organizations.
2. The opening statement of this proposal says it is “a good
time” for a National Reconciliation process but we see it
as a bad time to ask for National Reconciliation. The
below facts strongly prove that our vision is correct.

(A) Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, ethnic national leaders,

student leaders, young monk leaders, and many
committed democratic activists are still in prison
despite the call for their release by the United Nations
and foreign governments.
(B) Ethnic resistance groups are now facing offensive
attacks and those who reach peace agreements are now
under extreme pressure to lay down their arms and
change from soldiers into border guards.
(C) The regime did not draw an acceptable constitution for
all parties concerned and forcefully adopted their own
2008 constitution which favors the dominating military
rule in Burma and rejects ethnic rights and democratic
principles. The regime is now moving forward to the
2010 election without hesitation.
(D) The regime’s ignoring of the repeated calls from the
NLD party for meaningful dialogue for 19 years proves
that the NR proposal has no positive outcome.
3. The words “National Reconciliation” is a favorite slogan
and sounds nice within diplomatic circles but it has no
practical meaning in terms of dealing with Burma’s
unethical regime. This approach is not practical in
nature and is far away from today’s reality and will never
be successful. NLD’s Shwegonedine declaration has a
meaningful diplomatic approach for creating a
democratic foundation under tight scrutiny and pressure
by the regime.

4. The proposal which The Seven Alliance Group will

submit to the Jakarta convention does not have any
participation or support from the National League for
Democracy, ethnic nationalities parties, student groups
and many other groups inside Burma and also abroad.
The different strategies and ideas have created more and
more confusion among the democratic forces and ethnic
nationality resistance forces.

5. There is no open and frank discussion among democratic

forces, intellectuals, new generations, monks and ethnic
forces from inside and outside the country from so-called
leading groups. We warn those who continue to
arrogantly hand-pick groups and claim themselves as an
umbrella organization without respecting others will be
rejected. We will not accept anything approaching an
unreasonable political strategy. Standing together with a
clear conscience for the people of Burma by promoting a
mass movement together with those citizens prepared to
fight against the military dictatorship is the only way to
topple it.

6. We will not compromise the common work and political

strategy that we believe in as a way to curry favor from
 any country. We believe that the main task for the forces
abroad is to help strengthen the political forces inside
Burma and to invest in the people’s movement. We will
not accept any bargaining work which will not benefit all
ethnic nationalities and people.

7. We believe that full participation from ethnic resistance

groups, political forces, elected representatives from 1990
elections, student groups, new generation forces,
intellectuals and professionals will lead to a powerful
force for toppling the regime and our uniting for a better
life in our beloved country.

“Burmese Democratic Forces to Abolish Military Dictatorship

Conference.”
(August 11, 2009)