CNI News

11 August 2022

The National Unity Government has vowed to topple the military dictatorship and establish a federal democracy by joining hand with the Kachin revolutionary forces.

The NUG said it pledged to establish a federal democracy union aspired by all ethnic groups including the Kachin in a message sent to the Kachin Martyrs' Day, which falls on 10th August.

Spokesperson of the KIA Col Naw Bu told the CNI that he did not know the extent to which the NUG and the KIA would cooperate politically and nothing was being implemented to that end.

NUG Defence Minister U Yee Mon and PDF troops. (NUG-fb)

Col Naw Bu said, “The KIO central committee will decide the extent to which the two sides can cooperate but as far as I know, the central committee has not implemented any cooperation schemes with the NUG. However, both the KIO and the NUG have the same objectives of toppling the military dictatorship. I think the two sides can join hands for issues in which they have the same objectives. The KIO has not issued any statement about the matter. I just would like to point out that the two sides have the same objectives.”

However, the KPICT left the NUCC in early July.

The KPICT and the CRPH at a meeting. (CRPH)

It was likely that the NUG sent the message to the KIO as it realized that the Spring Revolution led by it could achieve victory only through the cooperation with EAOs, Political Analyst U Than Soe Naing told the CNI.

He told the CNI, “I think the NUG pointed out the need to cooperate between not just the NUG and the KIA but also between other EAOs like the Karenni, the CNF and the KNU and it by sending messages to their important events to call for cooperation to speed up the victory of the revolution.”

Currently, the KIA has formed alliances with local PDFs and fought with the junta in Katha, Pinlebu, Banmauk, Kawlin in Sagaing Region and Indawgyi and Hpakant in Kachin State.