Letter to International Community from Myanmar
Date: 3 February 2021
To: All Diplomatic Missions in Myanmar; all States and International Agencies Maintaining Relations with Myanmar
We are reaching out to express our grave concern regarding the illegal takeover of the Myanmar government by the military forces. While they have used claims of election fraud to justify their actions, we wanted to clarify that there is no provision under the Constitution or the laws of Myanmar justifying their intervention. In fact, their actions are in blatant violation of the 2008 Constitution—which they themselves drafted—as the power to declare a state of emergency is strictly reserved to the democratically elected president of the Union of Myanmar. Their actions amount to a slap in the face to the millions of Myanmar citizens who put their lives at risk in order to vote in the middle of a pandemic, as well as a betrayal of all of the promises they’ve made both to our citizens and to the international community.
As such, we cannot and will not accept as legitimate the new Myanmar-imposed government, which has been installed by the armed forces against the will of the citizens of Myanmar,and is thus illegitimate.
We urgently appeal to all embassies in Myanmar and all members of the international community to join us in rejecting this illegal military government. We further urge you to refuse to recognize this illegitimate government and to refuse to cooperate with it.
The faith of Myanmar democracy is on the line. We need the help of the international community to help us in our struggle to re-impose the rule of law and to recognize the democratically elected government, per the results of the 2020 elections.
From the bottom of our hearts, and on behalf of the people of Myanmar, we greatly thank you!
Sincerely,
SIGNATURES:
1. Ananda Data
2. Synergy : Social Harmony Organisation
3. Thukhamein Institute (သခA မိနအ် ငစ် တကီ ျNO)
4. မRေS လးလထW ေA နရာ (Mandalay Community Center)
5. ကေနာငအ် ငစ် တကီ ျN (Kanaung Institute)
6. The Seagull: Human Rights, Peace & Development
7. Natural Green Alliance (သဘာဝစမိ ်း သဘာဝပါတဝ် နး်ကျငထ် နိ း် သမိ ်းေရး မိတဖ် က ် အငအ် ားစA)
8. Mandalay Regional Youth Association (MRYA)
9. P.D.C.E (Peace, Development & Civic Engagement)
10. ဒတိA ့ းAိ တကရ် ာ အစညး် အvAံး
11. Youth Champion Network
12. Meiktila Youth Network
13. စမိ ်းေရာငစ် Aိ Activities
14. Myanmar Deaf Society
15. Pluralistic Society
16. Natural Green Alliance သဘာဝစမိ ်း
17. Mann Thingaha (Gender GBV Team)
18. White Marker Group
19. Peace Development Committee (မိထတ် လီ ာ)
20. Unity Erch Bridge Organization
21. ၈၈ငမိ ်းပငွ ့် - Meikhtila
22. ၈၈ငမိ ်းပငွ ့် - Tharze
23. ၈၈ငမိ ်းပငွ ့် - Thabaikkyin
24. Mandalay Affairs Team
25. ေရြ ခအံ ားမာနအ် ဖဲွO - Myingyan
26. Farmers Network – Wundwin
27. Second Tap Root (ဒAတိယေရေသာက်ြမစ်)
28. Spectrum Organization
29. Myingyan Political Prisoners Association
30. Future Star – Maddayar
31. Representatives of Youth Affairs Committee, Mandalay
32. Youth Network – Pyawbwe
33. Yi Ywal Yar Community Development
34. Our Home
35. Thazi Youth Network
36. Homeless people association (အိမ်ယာမဲ့ြပည်သမW ျား အစညး် အvAံး)
37. Kyaukse Youth Network
38. TRY Organization
39. Civic Engagement Network for M2
40. (ပငွ လ့် ငး် ြမငသ် ာလထW လA ပ ်ာ းမအ ဖဲွO) Citizen Action for Transparency
41. Myay Lat Generation Institute (ေြမလတ်မျိNးဆက်အင်စတီကျN)
42. Shan State Peace Task Force (သမ်းြပညန် ယ် ငမိ ်းချမ်းေရးအလပA ်အဖဲOွ)
43. GOAL Organization
44. ေအာငသ် ာစညအ် ဖဲွO
45. သငြ့် မတလ် သAိ မW ျားအဖဲွO
46. Mandalay Regional Youth Network
47. ေကျာကပ် နး် ေတာငး် လငW ယက် နွ ယ် က ်
48. ဒေိA ့တာငသ် လW ယသ် မားအဖဲွO
49. Justice For All (လအW ့ ခငွ အ့် ေရး ကာကယွ ေ် စာငေ့် ာ ကြ် ခငး် Rင ့်တရားမတမ O လကလ် မ ်းမီေ ရးအဖဲွO
50. ၈၈ငမိ ်းပငွ ့် စ်က့ းW
51. ေရမ ငး် သားေဖာငေ် ဒးင း်
52. ၈၈ငမိ ်းပငွ ့် ြမစသ် ား
53. SPACE
54. ေတာငသ် မနက် နွ ယ် က ်
55. ြမငြ့် မတဧ် ရာဝတ ီ လငW ယလ် မW Oက နွ ယ် က ်
56. Civic Engagement Development Network
57. Women & Youth’s Development Organization (WYDO)
58. မဇိ မေမတS ာ ေရလအ သငး် (မိတလီ ာ)
59. Green Justice Institute (GJI)
60. တမာရိပ်
61. TRI STAR
62. Madaya Youth Network
63. Legal Knowledge Sharing Group
64. Mandalay Women Political Federation (MWPF) (မRေS လး အမျိNးသမီးRိAင်ငံေရး အင်အားစA)
65. Empower Youth Enlightenment (EYE)
66. Diversity and Public Truth
67. Idea Land
68. SMILE Myanmar