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Opponents of Myanmar’s military government announced the introduction of a new constitutional document, an alternative to the 2008 constitution, which they described as “void”, at a time when calls for an alliance that includes ethnic armed militias to oppose the military coup.
While the opposition movements, by presenting an alternative letter to the constitution, are symbolic, they represent great political pressure and challenge to the Military Council, which means that they will not surrender to the violence imposed by the army and security forces.
The 2008 constitution guaranteed military dominance during the short period of civilian rule in the country.
The short period of democratic government, which lasted 10 years before the last coup ended it, did not change the situation, since the army retained great powers thanks to this constitution, which was put in proportion to it.
Resistance continues across the country as tens of thousands of private sector officials and workers go on strike to protest against the military regime.
The military violence enraged the twenty rebel groups, each of which belonged to different ethnicities in the country.
These groups included the “Karn National Union” and the “Kachin Independence Army”, which launched attacks against security forces.
Three of these groups, namely: the “Tang National Liberation Army”, the “Myanmar Democratic Alliance Army” and the “Arakan Army”, threatened on Tuesday to join the ranks of the protesters unless the institution military ease its security crackdown.
This comes at a time when international pressure continues on the military group, with a new emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday.
UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Anders said on Twitter that he must decide to “cut off the financial resources of the military council … and refer those responsible for the atrocities to the International Criminal Court.”
But members of the Security Council are divided, as the United States and Britain announced new sanctions, while China and Russia refused to officially condemn the coup.
The generals are taking advantage of this division and continue their bloody repression.
On Tuesday, security forces killed eight people, according to a local association that reported that 520 civilians died in the past two months, and hundreds more were missing and kept in secret locations.
As the situation deteriorated, Washington ordered “non-essential employees of the United States government” to leave Myanmar.
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