Anti-coup protesters hold slogans during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar on March 31, 2021.
Credit: AP Photo
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Opponents of Myanmar’s military junta have formally announced plans to set up a “unity government,” releasing a new interim constitution and declaring the military-drafted 2008 constitution void – a move that is likely to harden the country’s battle lines two months since the military coup that plunged it into crisis.
The move was taken by the Committee Representing Pyithu Hluttaw (CRPH), a group of parliamentarians elected at the election in November, which is positioning itself as a nucleus of a sort of internal government-in-exile.