CNI News

19 Oct 2022

Establishing a court by the National Unity Government in Katha Township in Sagaing Region is likely to aim at building public confidence, Advocate U Kyee Myint told the CNI.

The court was established in a liberated area to remedy the collapsed judicial system, he added.

He told the CNI, “Katha Township Court (of the junta) may be running as usual but the court of the NUG has been established for people in the liberated area. It is hearing the civil cases as well as drug trafficking cases. The NUG is building the public confidence. It is building public trust on the judicial system because the country has become a failed state. I think the court moves to other places when the military troops come to them.”

  The court building in Katha Township.

The court has been established in accordance with the policies of the NUG to implement administrative, judicial, health and education in the interests of the local people under the control of the PDG, a spokesperson for the PDF told the RFA.

A Katha resident told the CNI that he learnt of the establishment of the court on social media and it was likely that the court was established in villages under the control of the PDF.

He said, “I don’t go out and I don’t know anything. It is peaceful at my place. I don’t go outside the town. They may establish the court outside the town. I don’t know exactly. It is a heresy.”

The archway to Katha.

The NUG has established prisons and detention centres, U Kyee Myint said.

Armed clashes erupted in Katha Township between the military and the joint force of the KIA and PDF after the military staged a coup against the NLD government on 1st February, 2021.