Mon Unity News Today

The Township General Administration Department (GAD) has instructed the removal of ward/village office signboards belonging to the Mon Unity Party (MUP) in different townships of Mon State, as reported on the online page of the Human Rights Foundation of MonLand (HURFOM). According to a member of the Mon Unity Party central executive committee (CEC) quoted by HURFOM, the Union

The Military Council has sealed off the residence of the Minister of Labour, under the National Unity Government (NUG), as per sources close to the matter. The Military Council has sealed off the residence of Nai Suwunna (aka) Nai Tun Pe, the Minister of Labour under the National Unity Government (NUG), located in Ward No. 7, Htone Aing Village, Hpa-An Township, Karen State.

The State Administrative Council has been refreshed as the regime struggles to justify extending military rule for another six months.

Since seizing power from the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw, has been working to entice rival ethnic political parties into its new administration, in a sign of the divide-and-rule tactics it has long used to control the country. Saw Mu Daw*, an ethnic Karen youth in the central Ayeyarwady Region, feels betrayed by the ethnic party he once supported. Leading up to national elections in November, he and his friends went door-...