National ID card registration stopped till June

Khonumthung News April 15 - Given the pressure and work schedule to prepare for the referendum to have the constitution approved, Burmese military junta authorities have recently stopped the process of national identity card registration for citizens.

The stoppage of the registration for national identity cards is likely to last till the first week of June 2008, said a local in Kalay town in Sagaing Division, northwest Burma.

“When we went to the immigration office in order to get identity cards, they told us that it would be done only in June”, said a local in Kalay Town.

The local junta authorities from top to bottom in Kalay Town have stepped up its campaign among the locals to cast the ‘Yes’ vote in the constitutional referendum. Therefore, the ID card registration process has been stopped temporarily.

Meanwhile, the junta has also assigned block leaders to collect the lists of family members in Kalay. Consequently, those will be 18 before May cannot travel to distance places because the ID registration process has been halted.

The junta has announced holding of the referendum on May 10 to approve the constitution drafted by its hand-picked delegates across the nation. The referendum will be followed by so called multi party elections in 2010.

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