CNI News

February 26, 2026

Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) are reportedly receiving financial support from certain major foreign countries and providing terrorist training and weapons to revolutionaries, according to Vice Chairman of the State Security and Peace Commission, Vice Senior General Soe Win.

He made the remarks on February 24, 2026, during visits to local military units in Naung Wo, Kyaingkham, and Mongpyin in Shan State, where he met with officers, soldiers, and their families.

Vice Senior General Soe Win said: “Some EAOs that have signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) and some that have not signed it are accepting and sheltering youths and certain civil servants who fled to border areas due to political developments, under the pretext of humanitarian assistance. They are receiving financial support from certain major foreign countries, providing terrorist training, equipping them with weapons, and encouraging them to carry out terrorist acts. Due to instigation and agitation by internal and external organizations that do not desire stability and peace, as well as destructive media, various terrorist groups have emerged, including the so-called People’s Defense Force (PDF), which is under the illegal CRPH-NUG. These groups have been carrying out terrorist acts. Therefore, the Tatmadaw, together with members of the Myanmar Police Force and peace-loving citizens, is suppressing them in accordance with the law.”

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On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) overthrew the NLD government, claiming that disputes over the voter lists in the 2020 general election had not been resolved and that the government was attempting to form an administration without addressing those issues.

Subsequently, some NLD party leaders, Members of Parliament, pro-democracy activists, armed groups, and youths organized and launched armed resistance to overthrow the Myanmar military.

The armed revolution has been led by groups including the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the Karen National Union (KNU), the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Chin National Front (CNF), and the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF), which have been providing military training and weapons to young people.

Currently, intense armed clashes are taking place across Myanmar. Around four million people have been displaced, and more than 100,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed by fire.