Rebel organizations ‘ rejection of Myanmar’s troubled junta’s peace offer, which is suffering from lost lives on the battlefield and resignations in a protracted civil war that has lasted for more than three years.
This is dictatorship’s primary such engagement since it seized power in 2021. It comes after a peace that China brokered in the north Shan state was broken.
The junta urged racial armed groups and “terrorist rebel groups” to” communicate with us to address social issues politically” and to support elections scheduled for the following year.
The exiled National Unity Government ( NUG) said the offer was not worth considering, adding the junta had no authority to hold an election.
The coup struggled to stop a popular rebellion on several fronts as it battled an olive branch on Thursday.
Some reports say the junta today has power of less than half of Myanmar’s lands.
In June, an ally of three cultural forces renewed an offensive against the defense, seizing place along a crucial highway to China’s Yunnan state, which edges Myanmar.
China’s ambitious program to join its inland south-west to the Indian Ocean via Myanmar has been hampered by the battle near the border in Shan condition.
Beijing’s top minister, Wang Yi, is thought to possess delivered a notice to the government’s king Min Aung Hlaing during a visit to Myanmar next month.
In its speech on Thursday, the junta recommended that armed groups “follow the way of party politics and votes in order to bring about lasting peace and development.”
” The region’s human resources, standard equipment and some people’s lives have been lost, and the country’s balance and growth have been blocked]because of the conflict ]” it said.
However, the insurgent groups are skeptical of the present.
Talks between the military and the Karen National Union (KNU), which has been fighting for more freedom along Thailand’s borders for generations, were only possible if the military agreed to” popular political objectives,” the KNU claimed.
” Number one: no military participation in future politics. Two]the military ] has to agree to a federal democratic constitution”, KNU spokesman Padoh Saw Taw Nee told AFP.
” Number three: they have to be accountable for everything they have committed… including war crimes and crimes against humanity”, he said. ” No impunity”.
If the junta does not accede to these demands, the KNU will “keep putting pressure on]the junta ] politically and militarily”, he added.
Maung Saungkha, the leader of the Bamar People’s Liberation Army, told Reuters news agency that his group is” not interested in this offer”.
” They are hanging goat’s heads but selling dog meat”, Soe Thu Ya Zaw, commander of the Mandalay People’s Defense Forces, wrote on Facebook.
After the military ousted Myanmar’s democratically-elected government in 2021, peaceful protests were met with killings and arrests.
This resulted in ethnic armed groups joining forces with anti-coup militias from across the nation to fight back, launching a civil war.
At least 50, 000 people have been killed since the coup and more than two million people displaced, according to the United Nations.
The UN warned last week that Myanmar was “sinking into an abyss of human suffering”. Eyewitnesses had previously told the BBC about how the military has tourtued people in its custody, including by pouring burning petrol on them and forcing some to drink their urine.