CNI News 

3 June 2023 

Sagaing Forum was held with the aim of creating a brigade representing Bamar ethnic group, Political Observer U Than Soe Naing told the CNI. 

The brigade hopes that it will be able to create a united front by cooperation with the National Unity Government for the Spring Revolution, he added. 

U Than Soe Naing told the CNI, "I want to emphasize that it is very importantly to create a brigade representing Bamar ethnic group by unifying all groups in Sagaing Region. To meet the need, PDFs and those who are not under the command of the NUG are ogranizing the forum. We have also urged the NUG to form an army representing Bamar ethnic group in Sagaing Region as there has been no such thing as a Bamar army. It was heard that they were trying to create a brigade  by unifying the guerilla forces in the region under such circumstances." 

It was learnt that resistance forces and political forces in Sagaing Region will discuss the matter unitedly. 

The Karen National Union (KNU) sent a message to the forum, saying that it hoped a federal union will emerge from the Sagaing Forum and expected that Sagaing Region will be a federal unit in building a federal union.

Similarly, Pa-O National Federal Council announced that it was proud of the people of Sagaing Region who have been a model for resistance  and Sagaing Forum was a model for collective negotiations, collective leadership and collective resistance. 

Rakhine politian U Pe Than said, "Myanmar resistance forces are mostly revolutionary forces. They are fighting against military dictatorship and for democratic system but ethnic groups are fighting for self-determination, self-administration and the right to create their own destiny. Under such circumstances, some Bamar do not like the argenda. At such a time, a united force representing Bamar ethnic group should and can emerge. However, it is unacceptable that the Bamar group is against the other ethnic groups." 

The resistance against the Tatmadaw started in Sagaing Region after 1st February in 2021 and fighting has erupted until now.