On October 15, 2023, the Myanmar Military is preparing to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the NCA, the nationwide ceasefire agreement. Not only the signed ethnic groups, the KIA, a non-signatory armed ethnic group, has also been invited by the military to attend. Before this invitation, we need to know whether some of the actions of the military and the NCA can give equal rights to ethnic groups.
2023, before the 8th anniversary of the NCA peace talks to be held by the military. On the 9th October around 12:00 PM, Kachin State. Nearly 30 people, including children, were killed when the army bombed the Mone Lai Khat refugee camp near Laiza (capital of KIA). A large number of women and children are killed. So, there is no need to question whether the Myanmar Military really wants peace.
It is said that the army really wants peace, but the forces that have signed the NCA themselves are not aware of the real fundamentals, such as the deployment of troops, state division; Without getting any equal rights, etc. Under the leadership of the NCA, the 2-sided cease-fire, led by the army, we all know that the country was managed as it pleased. In the end, the peace process that was initiated by the signing of the NCA disappeared with the military coup.
Union peace conferences were held several times for the sake of the NCA, but no consensus was reached on the formation of a federal army. Based on the principle that a country must have only one army, the Myanmar Military only tries to control everything, and want to keep the ethnic revolutionary groups for achieving equality, federal democracy as subordinate organizations of the army.
No matter how mildly the military council talks about peace, these are just the kind of people who want to take a break when they are weak. On the other hand, they show their meanness, cruelty hand woven to Pazigyi airstrike, A Nang Pa airstrike and Mone Lai Khat refugee camp. That’s why I submitted that if we want to achieve real peace in Myanmar, the only thing that is important is to end the military dictatorship.
Yours Sincerely,
Naung Yoe