Myanmar’s NUG Praises Passage of US Burma Act

By The Irrawaddy 16 December 2022

The appearing president of Myanmar’s civilian Nationwide Unity Authorities (NUG) has applauded the passage of the Burma Act by way of the US Congress – authorizing non-lethal help to resistance forces – as a significant victory within the wrestle for democracy.

“The Burma Act will present much-needed hope and assist to the struggling folks of our nation,” Appearing President Duwa Lashi La stated in an announcement on Friday. He thanked the US Congress, the Burmese diaspora and people of excellent conscience throughout the US who labored to get the invoice authorised.

“We stay up for President Biden quickly signing it into legislation,” Duwa Lashi La stated.

The Senate handed the Burma Act, a part of the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act, to supply help to the NUG and its associates organizations, together with the Nationwide Unity Consultative Council, its folks’s protection forces (PDFs) and ethnic armed organizations. However the licensed help doesn’t embody arms. The act additionally goals to broaden sanctions in opposition to the regime and its associated companies.

The laws goals to forestall the junta gaining legitimacy and weapons and block its companies from working internationally. It now must be signed into legislation by US President Joe Biden.

The congressional approval was welcomed by pro-democracy forces as one other blow in opposition to the junta after ASEAN’s exclusion of junta chief Min Aung Hlaing from its summit.

“It’s a very optimistic invoice … for the primary time, formally and legally, the invoice contains assist for PDFs and ethnic revolutionary organizations. Will probably be very useful for the revolution,” NUG spokesman U Kyaw Zaw instructed The Irrawaddy on Friday.

He stated the NUG will work to implement the invoice with the US authorities and Congress.

Based on the Help Affiliation for Political Prisoners rights group, the junta has killed at the very least 2,604 folks and arrested greater than 16,500 for the reason that February 2021 coup.

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