Reporter : Li Ming / Editor : Mei Lan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/04/01/a103086577.html / Direct translation
Image : On 1 April 2021, some protesters in Yangon, Myanmar burned a copy of the 2008 constitution on the street to express their protest to the military government. (AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)
On Thursday (1 April 2021), the Representative Committee of the Parliament of the Union of Myanmar (CRPH) announced the establishment of a new government to fight against the military government. A few days ago, CRPH publicly called for the formation of a new federal army, and announced a new federal constitution on Wednesday. The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar warned that the crisis of civil war in Myanmar is imminent.
On Thursday, CRPH officially announced the establishment of a new government, the National Unity Government, vowing to end the dictatorship of the military government. On the same day, the Burmese people opposed to the military coup began to publicly burn the 2008 constitution drafted by the military to express their protest against the military government.
31 March was the expiration date of the Indigenous Peoples League government led by Wen Min. On the same day, CRPH issued a notice announcing the abolition of the Myanmar Constitution drafted by the military in 2008, and announced the Federal Democracy Charter of CRPH (Federal Democracy Charter of CRPH) drafted by the committee. CRPH stated that the drafting of the new constitution is to meet the long-term demand of local ethnic minorities in Myanmar for greater autonomy.
CRPH is composed of members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) previously led by Aung San Suu Kyi. After the Myanmar military launched a military coup on 1 February this year, a number of Democratic Party members who won the 2020 Myanmar general election spontaneously announced the establishment of the CRPH committee on February 5 and appointed an interim vice president and a number of members including interim minister. Since then, members of the democratically elected government of Burma, which was forcibly disbanded by the military government, began to contact a number of ethnic armed groups in Myanmar, working to establish a military alliance against the national defense forces controlled by the military government.
On 27 March, on the day of the 76th anniversary of the founding of the army of Myanmar, Mahn Win Khaing Than, the acting vice president elected by CRPH, issued a statement publicly calling for the formation of a new federal army and the end of the military dictatorship. On the same day, the military government's bloody suppression of the protesters escalated again, and hundreds of demonstrators were shot and killed by the military and police.
Subsequently, Myanmar's Shan political organization "Reconstruction Committee of Shan State" (RCSS) and the Three Brothers Alliance (Three Brothers Alliance) representing the Rakhine, Kokang, and Deang tribes, as well as various political organizations of the Karen and Kachin tribes successively issued statements condemning the military government's wanton massacre of protesters. The statement warned that if the military does not stop the killing of civilians, political organizations will not sit idly by and will "respond."
On 27 March, the base of the 66th Infantry Battalion of the 66th Mobile Infantry Division of the Burmese Army was attacked by rebel groups, resulting in more than 60 deaths and 14 soldiers captured; the next day, another Burmese army in the eastern region The post was attacked and at least 8 soldiers were captured. After the incident, the Karen armed group involved in the attack released pictures showing the spoils it had seized and the Burmese prisoners.
The Burmese army immediately took retaliatory action. From the evening of 28 March to the early morning of 29 March, local time, airstrikes on the Karen ethnic armed control area caused large tracts of houses to be burned and thousands of local residents were forced to flee their homes and travel to Thailand to escape the war.
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