DICTATOR WATCH(www.dictatorwatch.

org)Contact: Roland
Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.orgINTELLIGENCE FROM
BURMA POLICE DEFECTORMarch 26, 2010Please forward.
Dictator Watch has been given the results of the debriefing of a new
defector out of Burma, Inspector Soe Min of the Pa-an Police Force, Karen
State. He was responsible for forty subordinate officers.Soe Min fled
because one of his subordinates lost a patrol car, for which loss he was
held responsible. He is presently in hiding in a large Thai city.He was
actively involved in rigging the results of the 2008 Constitutional
Referendum (to see that the referendum passed), and which steps he
confirms will also be used in the upcoming 2010 election.Soe Min was
ordered by his superior officer, Maung Maung, to block all “No” votes on
the referendum. He was told to discard such ballots, and to replace them
with false “Yes” votes.He ordered his subordinate officers to visit all the
townships under his command and tell the local USDA, Fire Brigade and
other pro-SPDC factions to collect “Yes” votes from the population. These
organizations threatened the people such that many individuals did in
fact vote “Yes.” Still, the “No” vote was over 50% of the total. These
votes were destroyed. The police pocketed the ballots at the polling
stations, and then tore them up later. They were substituted with fake
“Yes” ballots. Over half of the entire count for Pa-an was completely
fraudulent.Before his defection, Soe Min learned that the same actions
will be conducted in the upcoming election. In addition, convicts are
being recruited to vote for the SPDC in return for release or other forms
of leniency.Soe Min’s information, which for the referendum has been
duplicated many times by sources from other parts of Burma, has an
important implication: The 2010 election will unquestionably be rigged.
This in turn begs the question of why anyone would want to participate in
it, either as a candidate or voter. Any candidate who is truly for
democracy is certain to be defeated. The only candidates who will win
seats will be people who want to join the SPDC and share in its
corruption. For the voters, individuals who intend to choose pro-
democracy candidates are naïve to believe that their votes will actually
count. Instead, they will be changed and given to pro-junta candidates.
Other than the relatives of the SPDC and its cronies, the only other
people who will vote will be individuals who have been forced to do so.
Under no circumstances whatsoever will the election legitimately reflect
the will of the people of Burma. It does not matter whether the NLD
chooses to register or not – although once hopes the organization will
follow Daw Suu’s principled and courageous lead. No matter what
happens, the entire exercise is doomed to be a fraud.March 29 postcript:
Bravo NLD! Now that the pro-democracy movement is unanimous about
not participating in the election, we need to attack it in every possible
way. In the coming months, there are surely many different things that
can be done to foil Than Shwe's plan.