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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - A soldier from the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) carries an RPG launcher near a Myanmar military base at Thingyan Nyi Naung village on the outskirts of Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town, April 15, 2024. — Reuters pic
BANGKOK, July 5 —Myanmar’s ruling junta today made a rare call for the armed groups it is fighting to cooperate with it ahead of a slated election, an invitation anti-coup forces swiftly rejected.
The unexpected appeal comes as the junta continues to suffer major battlefield reverses to ethnic minority armed groups and pro-democracy “People’s Defence Forces” (PDF) that rose up to oppose its seizure of power in 2021.
“If the armed groups... choose to legally establish themselves within the framework of the law and cooperate hand in hand with the government... the government will welcome and accept this,” the military said in a statement published by junta media The Global New Light of Myanmar.
The National Unity Government, a body dominated by ousted lawmakers working to reverse the coup, said the junta announcement was “a strategy filled with deception aimed at legitimising their power-consolidating sham election and attempting to divide and weaken” its opponents.
The military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected civilian government in February 2021, triggering mass protests that were met with a brutal crackdown.
Civilians set up PDFs to fight back and ethnic minority armed groups—many of which have fought the military for decades—were reinvigorated, plunging the country into civil war.
Myanmar’s junta chief said last month the country plans to hold elections in December and January, pressing ahead with polls denounced as a sham by international monitors.
The junta invited armed groups to stop fighting and start peace talks in September last year after a major surprise offensive led by a trio of ethnic minority armed groups. — AFP
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