Press Release of Three Brotherhood Alliance’s Unilateral Ceasefire Extension as a Sixth Term for Three Months and Offering a Bilateral Ceasefire to Myanmar Army
No. 8/2020
1 June 2020
Our Three Brotherhood Alliance of the Kokang (MNTJP/MNDAA), the Ta’ang (PSLF/TNLA) and the Arakanese (ULA/AA) has declared a unilateral ceasefire for several times with the aim:
(1) To resolve serious political problems through political dialogue,
(2) To effectively carry out practical tasks in conformity with the peace process between our organizations and the government of Myanmar and its military,
(3) To protect life and property of the general public for the sake of the majority of people occurring without any fighting,
(4) To actually implement bilateral ceasefire agreements and to end civil war completely,
(5) To assist the preventive and combative measures in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and
(6) To promote peace in Myanmar and stability of the borders of neighbouring countries bordering with Myanmar. We have already extended our unilateral ceasefire for five terms from 2019 till May 2020.
Despite the fact that Myanmar Army has also declared a unilateral ceasefire for several times like us, clashes continue to have broken out. That the Myanmar Army has excluded the Arakan region and attempted to defeat the Arakan Army by launching their sea-land-air offensive attacks in Arakan, the unilateral ceasefires have not stopped the fighting.
The unilateral ceasefires of the Myanmar Army with the preconditions and exclusion of one of our member organizations and irresponsible sayings of the President Office’s spokesman on media have hindered the progress of peace process. Nevertheless, we are fully willing to solve it by seeking the best way.
The Myanmar Army has not halted their military aggression against our organizations but ramped up their intensified assaults targeting civilians based on racial hatred. In addition, the fighting is intensifying to date because the Myanmar Army has continued to conduct more all-out offensive attacks than previous assaults. Meanwhile, the Myanmar Army has continued to carry out burning down of entire village based on racial hatred in addition to committing arbitrary arrest, torture and killings of our civilians and attacking villages with artillery and light weapons from air and navy ships through day and night.
As a gesture of goodwill, we are therefore offering to announce jointly a bilateral ceasefire with Myanmar Army and our organizations at the same time from both sides in order to start pragmatic peace building process. In addition, we have extended a three-month-long unilateral ceasefire as a sixth term from June 1, 2020 till August 31, 2020 in order to effectively implement practical tasks. If the Myanmar Army has continued their offensive attacks like before without any response during the offering time of our unilateral ceasefire extension, we will take decisive defensive actions like before hand in hand with the oppressed peoples.
Despite the fact that Myanmar Army has also declared a unilateral ceasefire for several times like us, clashes continue to have broken out. That the Myanmar Army has excluded the Arakan region and attempted to defeat the Arakan Army by launching their sea-land-air offensive attacks in Arakan, the unilateral ceasefires have not stopped the fighting.
The unilateral ceasefires of the Myanmar Army with the preconditions and exclusion of one of our member organizations and irresponsible sayings of the President Office’s spokesman on media have hindered the progress of peace process. Nevertheless, we are fully willing to solve it by seeking the best way.
The Myanmar Army has not halted their military aggression against our organizations but ramped up their intensified assaults targeting civilians based on racial hatred. In addition, the fighting is intensifying to date because the Myanmar Army has continued to conduct more all-out offensive attacks than previous assaults. Meanwhile, the Myanmar Army has continued to carry out burning down of entire village based on racial hatred in addition to committing arbitrary arrest, torture and killings of our civilians and attacking villages with artillery and light weapons from air and navy ships through day and night.
As a gesture of goodwill, we are therefore offering to announce jointly a bilateral ceasefire with Myanmar Army and our organizations at the same time from both sides in order to start pragmatic peace building process. In addition, we have extended a three-month-long unilateral ceasefire as a sixth term from June 1, 2020 till August 31, 2020 in order to effectively implement practical tasks. If the Myanmar Army has continued their offensive attacks like before without any response during the offering time of our unilateral ceasefire extension, we will take decisive defensive actions like before hand in hand with the oppressed peoples.
Despite the fact that Myanmar Army has also declared a unilateral ceasefire for several times like us, clashes continue to have broken out. That the Myanmar Army has excluded the Arakan region and attempted to defeat the Arakan Army by launching their sea-land-air offensive attacks in Arakan, the unilateral ceasefires have not stopped the fighting.
The unilateral ceasefires of the Myanmar Army with the preconditions and exclusion of one of our member organizations and irresponsible sayings of the President Office’s spokesman on media have hindered the progress of peace process. Nevertheless, we are fully willing to solve it by seeking the best way.
The Myanmar Army has not halted their military aggression against our organizations but ramped up their intensified assaults targeting civilians based on racial hatred. In addition, the fighting is intensifying to date because the Myanmar Army has continued to conduct more all-out offensive attacks than previous assaults. Meanwhile, the Myanmar Army has continued to carry out burning down of entire village based on racial hatred in addition to committing arbitrary arrest, torture and killings of our civilians and attacking villages with artillery and light weapons from air and navy ships through day and night.
As a gesture of goodwill, we are therefore offering to announce jointly a bilateral ceasefire with Myanmar Army and our organizations at the same time from both sides in order to start pragmatic peace building process. In addition, we have extended a three-month-long unilateral ceasefire as a sixth term from June 1, 2020 till August 31, 2020 in order to effectively implement practical tasks. If the Myanmar Army has continued their offensive attacks like before without any response during the offering time of our unilateral ceasefire extension, we will take decisive defensive actions like before hand in hand with the oppressed peoples.
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Press release of an ultimatum demanding “the total and immediate withdrawal of the administrative apparatus of the Burmese regime and all Burmese armed forces from Arakan”
United League of Arakan/Arakan Army, which was formed comprising of all peoples of Arakan and ethnic minorities with the aims for the liberation of the entire oppressed population of Arakan from the Burmese colonial occupation and misrule, the right of national equality and self-determination, the regaining of national losses and entitlements of the Arakanese, and the emergence of a new society of Arakan which is secure, peace, developed, free and dignified, has been implementing the Arakanese national goal in line with “the Way of Rakhita”.
It is hereby notified that no armed forces of the Burmese regime in Arakan shall be accepted by the ULA/AA. Myanmar Police Force and Border Guard Forces, which are under the control and subdivisions of the Myanmar Military under the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services , have been collaborating to carry out operations support activities for the Myanmar Army’s offensive attacks against the Arakan Army, arbitrary detention and torture of civilians of Arakan in the four-cuts campaign of the Myanmar Army. This is an ultimatum that all Burmese armed forces must be undertaken the total and immediate withdrawal from Arakan because they are not providing the general public of Arakan any legal protections but oppressing peoples and abusing power to detain civilians.
The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army, hand in hand with the entire population of Arakan, will also abolish and drive the colonial administrative apparatus of the Burmese regime and the war criminals Burmese armed forces out of Arakan. The Arakan Army has launched a warning attack against one of the Border Guard Forces of the Burmese regime, Thazin Myaing outpost, in Rathedaung township at 02:05 am on 29 May 2020. In fact, the Thazin Myaing outpost is a military stronghold under the banner of Border Guard Forces, from which the Burmese troops have been shelling villages and launching offensive assaults. The decisive action we have taken against it is also a retaliation that last a few days ago the Myanmar Army conducted the raid with excessive forces on our small outpost and another small camp where our injured troops are receiving medical treatment. Some ammunitions were seized and six members of the Burmese armed group were captured as prisoners of war. Two women and a 2-year-old child were released in good shape in a secure place after each were given 40,000 Kyats.
The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army has refrained from harming civilians, women and children, the elderly, and handicapped in this national liberation struggle. Despite being a revolutionary organization, we strictly comply with laws of war. Therefore, in accordance with international humanitarian laws we are taking care of prisoners of war, who were captured in the battles, at our best. In the same way, we have released non-military persons several times irrespective of religion and race under safe circumstances.
Sometimes we summoned and interrogated some profligate informers trained by the Myanmar Army, obstructers against the Arakan Army, those who are threatening life of people of Arakan and Arakanese traitors. But we used to release unsuspicious persons from such investigations under mutually safe circumstances. We have already conveyed U Soe Thu Win, a rural health worker, from Zee-Tan-Kone village in Rathedaung township to the hands of elders of the community and village administrators in school of Ngwe-Taung village in Buthidaung township in good shape at 6:00 am on 29 May 2020 after a few days of the investigation.
The entire population of Arakan are yearning for the total and immediate withdrawal of the colonial administrative apparatus of the Burmese regime and all Burmese armed forces from Arakan in believing that national reconciliation among all peoples in the region of Arakan, regional stability, development, freedom and peace will be genuinely possible only when there are no Burmese rule and its armed forces presence in Arakan. Therefore, international families should help our struggle for humanity. The fact that people of Arakan are not willing to see any armed forces of the Burmese regime including the Myanmar Army which has been conducting a campaign of state genocide based on racial hatred against peoples of Arakan, other minorities and even the civil servants who are pillars of the Burmese colonial rule, the Burmese authorities must go back to their native land peacefully with their own conscience in consideration of long-term prospects for mutual interests.
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