Myanmar Junta Chief Admits to Rising Resistance Pressure

By The Irrawaddy 16 February 2023

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has admitted that resistance assaults have elevated because the 2021 coup.

Talking on the 77th anniversary of the founding of state broadcaster Myanmar Radio and Tv (MRTV) on Wednesday in Naypyitaw, Min Aung Hlaing lamented that the resistance motion is past the navy’s management.

The regime prolonged emergency rule for an additional six months on February 1, citing instability throughout Myanmar. The regime has since imposed martial legislation in 37 townships, together with the resistance strongholds of Sagaing and Magwe areas and Chin and Kayah states. It has additionally made adjustments to the Arms Act to arm pro-junta militias and safety organizations with pistols, rifles and computerized weapons.

Min Aung Hlaing advised the Nationwide Protection and Safety Council on February 1 that solely 198 out of over 330 townships in Myanmar are one hundred pc secure. The regime blamed pro-democracy, anti-military teams which are “killing harmless folks, blowing up public locations and imposing armed intimidation and coercion on the folks”.

In Might 2021, he advised the Hong Kong-based Chinese language-language broadcaster Phoenix Tv that the institution of resistance teams by the Nationwide Unity Authorities was “working within the air”.

Within the interview, he admitted that he didn’t count on such intense opposition to navy rule. He known as the anti-regime protests an emotional response, saying that his claims of voter fraud would anger Nationwide League for Democracy (NLD) voters.

Min Aung Hlaing justified his 2021 coup with claims of voter fraud towards the NLD. The NLD gained a landslide victory with greater than 80 p.c of the parliamentary seats within the election.

The junta boss continued guilty international international locations, so-called traitors and political exiles for his failure to manage the nation, throughout the MRTV anniversary on Wednesday.

The NUG has known as 2023 the decisive 12 months for the revolution, because the junta is struggling to manage resistance teams and ethnic armed organizations.

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