Part 2: Section 19 Summary

This section comes from an interview with Dominic Falder on AsiaWeek in July 1989. The format is question and answer. The host asked her what she thought would happen after the elections, if there were elections. Her response was that "We don't know; this is the problem. Whoever is elected will first have to draw up a constitution that will have to be adopted before the transfer of power. They haven't said how the constitution will be adopted." She continued that SLORC—the State Law and Order Restoration Council—can't be trusted to set up a democratically elected government, citing its refusal to enter into dialog with any that disagree with it as one example: "any organization totally under the thumb of a dictator can be described as poor." She also insisted that economic development—SLORC's slogan—must...