Mon council vows to fight for federal representation

By Admin 19 Aug 2024

DMG Newsroom
19 August 2024, Sittwe

The Mon State Federal Council (MSFC) said it would work to establish a federal unit representing ethnic Mon people in a federal, democratic union to be built in the future while ensuring national equality, self-determination and autonomy for Mon people.

The council in its statement on the 77th anniversary of Mon Revolution Day, which commemorates the day in 1947 when a group of Mon men attacked a police station in Hpa-an Township with knives in order to seize weapons from police. That year, Mon people established armed groups to oppose the central government and fight for their ethnic rights.

Though the revolution bore some fruit, it has not yet reached the political and national goals of ethnic Mon people, said the council.

“We will continue to fight all forms of dictatorship, including military dictatorship, in unity with fellow revolutionary organisations and like-minded organisations,” said the council in its statement.

The council also urged all Mon people to join hands with it.

Revolutionary organisations with ties to the MSFC said they are fighting the military dictatorship alongside other anti-regime groups involved in the Spring Revolution and ethnic armies.

Three Mon revolutionary organisations — the Mon State Revolutionary Force, Mon State Defense Force and Mon National Liberation Army-AD — also released a joint statement, calling for unity in fighting the military regime.

“The dictatorial army of Min Aung Hlaing is the common enemy of the Mon people. So, the entire Mon people must join hands to fight it. There is also a need for all the armed groups in Mon State to fight it together,” reads the statement.

The Myanmar regime is on its heels, the statement added, calling the current political and military situation the most opportune time to fight for national liberation and federal democracy.

Anti-junta groups have so far seized nearly 80 towns across the country.