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The Kachin Independence Organization and New Democratic Army-Kachin both agree to take part in the Convention.

 

September 22, 2003

The military government organizes mass rallies to support the National Convention and road map.

 

August 30, 2003

Burma’s new Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt announces a seven-point road map to democracy. The first step is the resumption of the National Convention, but no timeframe or details on delegates is provided.

 

June 7, 1996

The junta enacts law No 5/96, saying they need to prevent people from working with exile groups from obstructing the functions of the NC. The law, which is called the Law Protecting the Peaceful and Systematic Transfer of State Responsibility and the Successful Performance of the Functions of the National Convention against Disturbances and Oppositions, says it is illegal to make speeches or disseminate written statements and which "belittle the National Convention" and make people misunderstand its proceedings. [Click here to see the Law]

 

March 31, 1996

The Burmese military adjourns the National Convention.

 

March 25, 1996

The NLD sends the military another request asking for a parliamentary assembly to be convened.

 

December 23, 1995

The Convention acknowledges and then rejects a Shan Nationalities League for Democracy proposal for the new constitution to be based on the principle of sovereignty resting with the people.

 

November 29, 1995

The junta expels all of the NLD delegates from the assembly. The number of MPs elected in 1990 now make up less than three percent of all delegates.

 

November 28, 1995

The National League for Democracy requests a review of the Convention’s working procedures. Specifically, NLD delegates want to repeal orders which censor debate and allow for criminal punishment of those who speak against the military during the Convention. Authorities deny the request and the 86 delegates from the NLD boycott the meetings for two days.

 

July 10, 1995

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

 

September 2, 1994

Sessions reconvene. Delegates discuss self-administered areas, the legislature, the executive branch and the judiciary. The Convention approves measures insisting that at least a third of the seats in any new parliament go to the military.

 

May 1994

Another elected representative, Daniel Aung, flees from Burma. He says delegates are frustrated and that the military is silencing independent action.

 

January 18 to April 9, 1994

Delegates draw up specific chapters on the structure of the state and the head of state. Despite opposition from many of the elected representatives, the convention approves a presidential rather than a parliamentary system.