CNI News

19 August 2022

There are people from the domestic National League for Democracy (NLD) who want to meet and discuss regarding the current crisis in Myanmar, said the spokesperson of SAC General Zaw Min Tun.

He said the above statement at SAC’s 19th press conference held on August 17.

General Zaw Min Tun said, “There are people within NLD party who can go to the path of negotiation. They themselves are the 88th generation descendants. We have known from their statements that most of NLD party members have long been in the country who have always believed in the path of negotiation and have still been holding on to it.”

seeing Major General Min Aung Hlaing and NLD leaders

Although he said there are people who want to meet and discuss, he did not disclose who they are.

Then, he said that about 3 out of 4 members of the NLD party have signed stating their willingness to peacefully stay in the country and that those who are now in the forest are those who joined the NLP party only after 2012.

Currently, the NLD Party Chairperson Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; the Vice-chairmen U Win Myint and Dr. Zaw Myint Maung were arrested and charged after the military overthrew the NLD government. Then other central executive committee members were arrested and charged as well.

seeing anti-miliary protests (Frontier Myanmar)

A political analyst has shared his take on the issue that after 2012 or not no matter the joining time, a person registered in the NLD party will always be a NLP Party member; and it will be difficult to implement the process of negotiation since most of the NLD members are still in opposition to negotiation and that there is no prospect of implementation from SAC’s side as well.

He said, “If we look at the before part of February 1, we don’t see much willingness from NLD side when the military proposed negotiation. After that, a coup d'état happened. Now that the miliary is building the situation he wants after throwing a coup, there is a question about whether they still want to do the negotiation. I guess the answer is no. If we look at the public, they are standing firm on the side of no negotiation when it comes to blood debt, we still have to watch whether NLD will go that way and how far the third party will come to play at this scene.”

Currently, there is an ongoing competition between SAC and NUG for international recognition as the legitimate government and there are armed conflicts taking place that aim towards annihilating the competition.