Myanmar’s decision military the board now has announced revocation of the citizenship of best members of the main group coordinate the resistance to the army rule.
the announcement broadcast on State-run MRTV Television on Friday said 11 leaders of opposition to military rule had their citizenship revoked because they allegedly fled the country and harmed the national interest.
It targeted eight members of the shadow government of national unity, which considers itself the legitimate ruling authority of the country, and three prominent activists.
The NUG was created by elected legislators who were prevented from sitting down when the military grasped power in February last year ousting the civil government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Resistance to the takeover has now led to what some UN experts have called a civil war.
At least two members of the NUG firm named in the announcement responded on Twitter on Saturday.
Aung Myo Min, human rights minister who has traveled in Europe to look for support for the Myanmar resistance movement, said the announcement was illegal because the military advice is not legitimate government.
“Cessing citizenship of Cabinet Members by Terrorist military the junta is just a joke. Nothing can stop our love for our country,” Aung Myo Min wrote.
The group’s Foreign Minister of Sudan, Zin Mar Aung, wrote that “it is not because members of the coup are posing as government and withdrawing my citizenship doesn’t make me love Myanmar any less. They are not allowed to undress people are no longer citizens.
The other eight members of the Opposition Cabinet appointed in the military is announcement have been billed with high treason, which carries potential death penalty and other political offences.
The three activists were Min Ko Naing, a leader of a failed 1988 uprising against A previous military dictatorship, Eaint Poe Ou, also known as Pencilo and Myo Yan Naung Thein.
Termination of Citizenship” announcement said it was issued under the Citizenship of Myanmar Act 1982 and that “similar perpetrators will be identified and prosecuted”.
Most NUG leaders are thought to be in hidden in border areas controlled by sympathetic armed ethnic minority groups, while others operate from abroad.
Myanmar’s decision military the board now has announced revocation of the citizenship of best members of the main group coordinate the resistance to the army rule.
the announcement broadcast on State-run MRTV Television on Friday said 11 leaders of opposition to military rule had their citizenship revoked because they allegedly fled the country and harmed the national interest.
It targeted eight members of the shadow government of national unity, which considers itself the legitimate ruling authority of the country, and three prominent activists.
The NUG was created by elected legislators who were prevented from sitting down when the military grasped power in February last year ousting the civil government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Resistance to the takeover has now led to what some UN experts have called a civil war.
At least two members of the NUG firm named in the announcement responded on Twitter on Saturday.
Aung Myo Min, human rights minister who has traveled in Europe to look for support for the Myanmar resistance movement, said the announcement was illegal because the military advice is not legitimate government.
“Cessing citizenship of Cabinet Members by Terrorist military the junta is just a joke. Nothing can stop our love for our country,” Aung Myo Min wrote.
The group’s Foreign Minister of Sudan, Zin Mar Aung, wrote that “it is not because members of the coup are posing as government and withdrawing my citizenship doesn’t make me love Myanmar any less. They are not allowed to undress people are no longer citizens.
The other eight members of the Opposition Cabinet appointed in the military is announcement have been billed with high treason, which carries potential death penalty and other political offences.
The three activists were Min Ko Naing, a leader of a failed 1988 uprising against A previous military dictatorship, Eaint Poe Ou, also known as Pencilo and Myo Yan Naung Thein.
Termination of Citizenship” announcement said it was issued under the Citizenship of Myanmar Act 1982 and that “similar perpetrators will be identified and prosecuted”.
Most NUG leaders are thought to be in hidden in border areas controlled by sympathetic armed ethnic minority groups, while others operate from abroad.