Myanmar regime declares ethnic alliance members ‘terrorist organisations’

Myanmar’s military junta has officially labelled the three members of the Brotherhood Alliance as “terrorist” organisations, according to a notice published by state media on Tuesday.The decision, made by the regime’s Anti-Terrorism Central Committee, comes more than 10 months after the alliance’s launch of a major anti-junta offensive in northern Shan State in October of last year.The three members of the alliance—the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), and the Arakan Army (AA)—have since inflicted substantial losses on the regime in areas near Myanmar’s border with China and along the country’s western coast.The AA, which now controls more than half of Rakhine State, was previously designated a terrorist organisation in March 2020 by the National League for Democracy government, which was ousted by the military in February 2021.A month after. . .