- NUCC Welcomes International Rejection of Junta’s Sham Election
m.CDM, November 29
The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) has issued a statement warmly welcoming the official positions of the United Nations, ASEAN, the European Parliament and most countries, which have all refused to recognize the military council’s illegal sham election.
NUCC said it “highly appreciates” these positions because they stand together with the will of the majority of the people of Myanmar.
The NUCC earnestly urges the international community to maintain this stance firmly even after the election period, and to refuse to recognize any results produced by this sham poll.
The statement notes that the junta plans to hold an illegal, sham election “at gunpoint” in order to entrench military dictatorship and secure impunity for its war crimes. From this process, it says, will emerge:
- “Parliaments under military domination that merely pretend to be representative,” and
- “A fake administration, nominally ‘elected’, but in reality a military-controlled regime rebranded as an elected government.”
The NUCC therefore expresses, on behalf of the people of Myanmar, its profound gratitude to the United Nations, ASEAN, the European Parliament and the wider international community for correctly assessing the nature of the junta’s sham election and refusing to recognize it.
- Interim Mandalay Region Administrative Council Formed
m.CDM, November 29
The Committee Representing Mandalay Region Hluttaw (Parliament) has announced the formation and appointment of a nine-member Interim Mandalay Region Administrative Council, including its chairperson.
The council has been formed under Article 75 of the Mandalay Region Interim Political Arrangement, according to the statement.
In the new council:
- U Myint Aung Moe will serve as Chair and Head of the Administration Department;
- U Aung Myo Latt will serve as Head of the Defense and Security Department and Deputy Chair;
- Daw Nwe Tama will serve as Attorney General;
- U Aung Zaw will be Minister for Finance, Revenue and Natural Resources Management;
- U Myint will be Minister for Education;
- U Pyi Sone Aung will be Minister for Youth, Women and Children’s Affairs;
- Daw Aye Myint Aung Aung will be Minister for Humanitarian and Emergency Management;
- Dr. Aung Kyaw Oo will be Minister for Health;
- and U Htay will serve as Secretary.
At the first session of the Mandalay Region Hluttaw, held on November 28, the parliament approved the nine members of the Interim Mandalay Region Administrative Council, and also formed its standing committees, including: - Draft Law Committee
- MP Vetting Committee
- Public and Social Affairs Committee
- Natural Resources, Regional Development, Budget and Finance Committee
- Security and Defense Committee
This was confirmed in the announcement by the Committee Representing Mandalay Region Hluttaw.
- NUG Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung Arrives in Japan for Second Visit
m.CDM, November 29
The NUG’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Daw Zin Mar Aung, arrived in Tokyo, Japan, on the afternoon of November 28, according to the NUG Representative Office in Japan.
She was welcomed at the airport by U Soe Hla Thain, the NUG Representative to Japan, along with staff of the representative office.
This is Daw Zin Mar Aung’s second official visit to Japan. During the trip, she will brief the Japanese government, members of parliament, international organizations and Japanese media on:
- the current human rights violations in Myanmar,
- war crimes, and
- the severe humanitarian crisis faced by the people.
She will also present and discuss: - the NUG’s federal democratic vision,
- its foreign policy, and
- its roadmap for dismantling the military dictatorship at its roots.
The representative office says she will additionally hold in-depth meetings with: - Myanmar nationals living in Japan, and
- Japanese groups supporting Myanmar’s democracy movement.
More detailed program information will be announced by the office in the coming days.
- Seven Killed, Including Children, and Ten Injured in Airstrike on Kyauktaw’s Kyaung Pho Village
m.CDM, November 29
The Arakan Army (AA) has confirmed that seven people were killed, including children, and ten were injured when the junta bombed Kyaung Pho Village in Kyauktaw Township, which is under AA control.
In its statement, AA said the fascist junta’s forces carried out the airstrike on Kyaung Pho Village in Kyauktaw Township.
At around 10:40 a.m. on November 28, a fascist junta jet fighter bombed Kyaung Pho Village, the statement said.
Because of this air attack by the fascist junta, seven innocent civilians from Kyaung Pho—one child, five women and one man—were killed, ten civilians were injured, and five houses were destroyed, AA announced.
Among the injured are six schoolchildren under the age of 12, most of whom are girls, according to AA.
The Arakan Army criticized the junta, saying that as it faces heavy casualties in clashes with AA, the fascist military council has been venting its frustration by using airstrikes and heavy artillery to attack civilian villages that are not military targets, and is committing clear and systematic war crimes by massacring civilians. - Displaced Civilian Beheaded by Junta Column in Mying Township
m.CDM, November 29
A civil society network in the central Dry Zone, “Mying Civil Society,” reports that a 33-year-old internally displaced man, Ko Nga Thein, was brutally killed—stabbed twice in the abdomen and then beheaded—by a junta column in Mying Township, Magway Region.
He had been sheltering in the forest near Nyaung Ywa Village to escape the fighting when, on November 27, he was seized by troops from a column operating out of Military Industry No. 2 (MI-2).
The next day, his body was found in the forest between Myay Yint Village and Nansikang Village, with stab wounds to his abdomen and his throat slit, the group said.
About one mile away from where his body was found, locals also discovered the body of a man believed to be Maung Zaw Min Khine from Aung Thar Village, Pakokku Township, whom they say is thought to have been a Pyu Saw Htee militia member.
Locals say Ko Nga Thein was captured when he came across the moving column while living as a displaced person in the forest near Nyaung Ywa. He was taken into Thayetkan, a Pyu Saw Htee village, and then killed the following night in the aforementioned location.
Because the junta and Pyu Saw Htee have been conducting intense joint operations around Mying–Gangaw–Pakokku, encounters between columns and displaced civilians are occurring frequently.
Local people are warning civilians to be especially careful to avoid any contact with military columns. - Three Civilians Injured by Landmine Planted by Junta Forces in Pauk Township
m.CDM, November 29
Three civilians were injured in Pauk Township, Magway Region, after stepping on a landmine planted by the junta, according to the Pauk Township Humanitarian and Disaster Management Department.
On the morning of November 28, around 7 a.m., three related men from Thichaung, Thapyay Aye and Taedaw Yar/Ma Kye Villages in southern Pauk Township were traveling on a single motorbike to work their fields when they triggered a landmine and were injured.
It is reported that junta troops and their allied Pyu Saw Htee militias have heavily planted landmines around areas such as Yaw Creek and along the routes they have used for offensives.
The Pauk Township Humanitarian and Disaster Management Department has therefore issued a warning urging local residents to be extremely cautious and avoid traveling in areas where junta columns have operated. - Junta Column Ambushed and Neutralized in Natmauk Township
m.CDM, November 29
According to a statement by the Taung Twin Gyi Sub-Unit of Battalion 902, a junta column moving out of Myin Te Gyi Village in Natmauk Township, Magway Region, was intercepted and attacked in an ambush.
Around 7 a.m. on November 28, a column of 92 junta soldiers leaving Myin Te Gyi Village was ambushed by:
- the Special Operation Column of the Naypyidaw Military Command, Battalion 902, and
- forces from Thayet District Battalion (1).
The fighting lasted for about an hour and a half. The statement says the joint resistance forces were able to withdraw safely without casualties, but the number of casualties on the junta side could not be confirmed.
It also notes that Battalion 903, Natmauk Township People’s Defense Force (Pakapha), and allied units in the area are reinforcing their presence, and that clashes may break out anywhere at any time. Civilians are therefore urged not to live or travel near junta columns.
- Chinese Scam-Linked Migrants Sheltered in Sealed Civilian Homes in Myawaddy
m.CDM, November 29
In Myawaddy, Karen State, civilian homes that were sealed off by the junta after the coup are being used to shelter Chinese nationals who fled from scam compounds (“tiger sites”) in Min Letpan, Shwe Kokko and similar areas, according to local reports.
Ko Ye Min, an activist whose home was sealed because he participated in anti-coup protests, said that DKBA and ward administrators had housed Chinese “tiger scam” workers in his own house. The junta only carried out “face-saving” arrests after residents in the neighborhood lodged complaints.
Although the military council had declared that these sealed houses were now “state property” and that no one was allowed to enter, they themselves have violated their own orders by using them in this way. - Bangladesh Border Guards Cross into Maungdaw and Seize Eight Cattle from Traders
m.CDM, November 29
Arakan Princess Media reports that members of the Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) crossed into Maungdaw Township, in Arakan (Rakhine State), and seized eight head of cattle from local traders.
At around 10 a.m. on November 27, five BGB personnel allegedly crossed the border and confiscated the animals.
The eight cows belonged to traders from Baw Tu Ba Market in Maungdaw. They were among about 150 head of cattle being held on the Arakan side between Border Posts 50 and 51, waiting to be taken across the border when they were seized, according to the report.
Today’s news was sent in by Ko Thit Lulay and Kharl Shell.