The latest on this front comes from a really interesting article from The Irrawaddy, a “website by the Irrawaddy Publishing Group, founded in 1990 by Burmese exiles living in Thailand”. From author San Yamin Aung:

The Union Parliament’s Charter Amendment Committee—tasked with making the military-drafted Constitution democratic—has put forward more than 3,700 recommendations for various changes to provisions of the Constitution, suggesting amendments, additions and/or repeals.

In protest of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party and other parties’ efforts to amend the Constitution, the military has rejected the committee’s recommendations.

The 45-member committee—with representatives from 14 political parties, including independents and the military’s 25 percent bloc in Parliament—has been reviewing the entire Constitution for possible amendments, chapter by chapter, since February.

See full story here.