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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The “Three Brotherhood Alliance,” composed of three ethnic armed organizations, launched “Operation 1027” in northern Shan State in late October, taking hundreds of military outposts and towns before advancing into other ethnic-majority areas of Myanmar.

    However, the spokesperson added, that it is “too early to draw firm conclusions on how significant these developments pose to the junta’s rule and the balance of power between the ethnic armed organizations dominant in the current fighting and other opposition stakeholders such as the National Unity Government.”

    Some commentators think this could be the beginning of the end for the junta that took power in February 2021 after ousting the democratically elected government headed by now-detained Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

    The coup also exacerbated tensions between the military and Myanmar’s numerous ethnic militias, which dominate regions on the periphery of the country and have waged civil wars against the central government since independence in 1948.

    In mid-October, the NUG issued the “Prague Appeal,” which is an open letter laying out a vision for a post-war federal democracy and demanding more aid from the EU and greater sanctions on the military government.

    As well as supporting efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to resolve this conflict, the EU response has been twofold, said David McAllister, chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.


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