The designation bans anybody from becoming a member of or having contact with the MNDAA, TNLA and the Arakan Military.
The Myanmar navy has designated three main ethnic armed teams which have superior throughout swaths of northern and western Myanmar over the previous 12 months as “terrorist” teams.
The designation was made on September 2 and applies to the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), Ta’ang Nationwide Liberation Military (TNLA) and Arakan Military, the state-run International New Gentle of Myanmar reported on Wednesday.
Underneath the Anti-Terror Regulation, membership and speak to with teams labelled “terrorist” organisations are banned.
“Those that contact these terrorists are additionally committing terror acts,” the outlet quoted Senior Basic Min Aung Hlaing, who chairs the navy’s State Administration Council (SAC), as saying.
The armed teams shaped the Three Brotherhood Alliance to launch a major offensive in direction of the tip of final 12 months that has given new momentum to efforts to take away the generals who seized energy in a February 2021 coup.
Their fighters have superior in components of Myanmar bordering China and Thailand, in addition to in far western Rakhine the place battle analysis agency Disaster Group mentioned on the finish of August the Arakan Military seemed to be accountable for territory with a inhabitants of about a million folks.
Folks’s Defence Forces (PDFs), civilians who’ve taken up arms in opposition to the navy, have additionally superior notably within the central Mandalay area.
The PDFs have been arrange in 2021 by the Nationwide Unity Authorities (NUG) of elected politicians and activists after the navy responded to mass protests with pressure.
The SAC designated the NUG a “terrorist” group in Might 2021. The NUG refers back to the navy as “terrorists”.
The Arakan Military, which, just like the navy has been accused of rights abuses, was beforehand labelled a “terrorist” organisation by the elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi.
The navy eliminated the designation two months after the coup, saying the group, with which it then had a ceasefire, was serving to to ascertain peace. The truce later broke down.
The Help Affiliation for Political Prisoners, an area monitoring group, says 5,599 folks have been killed for the reason that coup, whereas greater than 20,000 are being held in jail.