KNU chief says junta’s days are numbered

By Admin 12 Aug 2024

DMG Newsroom
12 August 2024, Sittwe

Karen National Union (KNU) chairman Padoh Kwe Htoo Win on Monday said Myanmar’s military dictatorship is in its waning days due to bitter opposition nationwide.

People across the country have both politically and militarily opposed the coup since it was staged on February 1, 2021, he said in an address marking the 74th anniversary of Karen Martyrs’ Day, which commemorates the anniversary of the death of storied KNU leader Saw Ba U Gyi and a group of his colleagues in an ambush by the military in 1950.

“The resistance has been so strong that the regime can no longer control it. The military dictatorship is on the brink of extinction,” Padoh Kwe Htoo Win said.

Myanmar has been under different forms of repressive military rule since the military staged its first coup in 1962, the KNU chairman noted.

He asked people to do their part to wipe out the chauvinist military dictatorship and build a federal, democratic country, calling for cooperation among ethnic peoples, political parties and anti-regime groups.

Said one politician: “Now is the best time to wipe out military dictatorship. This has been proven by the offensives of revolutionary organisations that have seized towns.”

The regime has lost more than 70 towns since ethnic armed organisations and allied anti-regime forces formed since the coup launched a large-scale offensive in late October.