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AMCDP Statement in Support of Constitutional Democracy in Myanmar
We the undersigned members of the Australia-Myanmar Constitutional Democracy Project (AMCDP), write to condemn the recent coup and arrests of political and community leaders in Myanmar. We support the people of Myanmar as they peacefully resist the military’s constitutionally improper and wilfully undemocratic imposition of a state of emergency.
The AMCDP is a consortium of legal scholars from a range of universities, formed in 2013. Since then, we have conducted a series of workshops in different centres around Myanmar with lawyers, judges, politicians, journalists, students, activists from civil society, ethnic leaders, and interested members of the public . The aim of the workshops has been to foster discussion of the fundamental principles informing constitutional democracy, departing from the premise that constitutional democracy cannot be sustained unless it is built from the bottom up by the people themselves.