The honorable Uri Rosenthal

Minister of Foreign Affairs

The Government of the Netherlands

Dear Mr. Foreign Minister,

Burma’s controversial election, its first in 20 years, is only days away. The whole world sees it as a “sham”.
We all realize that the election will be held without participation of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu
Kyi remained under house arrest, more than 2,100 political prisoners and some ethnic parties have been
excluded from competing in the polls. Consequently, it is not a free and inclusive one.

The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) organized by the ex-military personals and their
cronies will win it to legitimize the military regime. The junta’s main motivation in holding this election is
not to bring democracy to Burma but to prolong our struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma for sure
by overturning the results of the 1990 election in which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for
Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory. Thus, the regime is artfully organized itself to win it.

Recently, US State Department spokesperson P.J. Crowley said: “We will watch events as they unfold in
Burma and hope that the new government will take a different approach than it has in the past.” We are
afraid that the US and the international community will fall into the junta’s trap by recognizing the results of
this sham election.

Such a “different approach” referred to by Crowley must allow opposition voices to be heard in parliament
and must include the release of Suu Kyi and the other political prisoners. If the international community
recognizes the new government as legitimate before these things take place, it will be a betrayal of the 55
million people who live in Burma.

Nonetheless, we are very thankful to the whole world including the UN calling for the election to be fair and
inclusive by releasing all the political prisoners including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Particularly, we are
greatly appreciated to the Government of the Netherlands for its continuous support for our cause fighting
for freedom and democracy in Burma and endorsing the UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate the
regime’s committed crimes against humanity.

Furthermore, we would like the Netherlands Government to get more involve in Burma’s crisis especially at
this time while the lives of fifty five millions people in Burma are at stake. We would like the government
to take a leading role asking all the EU member states to endorse the Commission of Inquiry. Also, it would
be much obliged if the government officially reject the upcoming “sham election” without representation of
all the stakeholders in Burma.

Sincerely your’s

Myat Thiha
Political Department
Date: November3rd , 2010