Myanmar regime labels key ethnic armed groups ‘terrorist’ organisations
Al Jazeera
The designation bans anyone from joining or having contact with the MNDAA, TNLA and the Arakan Army.
The Myanmar military has designated three major ethnic armed groups that have advanced across swaths of northern and western Myanmar over the past year as “terrorist” groups.
The designation was made on September 2 and applies to the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Arakan Army, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Wednesday.
Under the Anti-Terror Law, membership and contact with groups labelled “terrorist” organisations are banned.
“Those who contact these terrorists are also committing terror acts,” the outlet quoted Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who chairs the military’s State Administration Council (SAC), as saying.
The armed groups formed the Three Brotherhood Alliance to launch a major offensive towards the end of last year that has given new momentum to efforts to remove the generals who seized power in a February 2021 coup.
