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The law has been used to exclude many Muslims and Hindus, including those who previously had full citizenship. The Charter rejects the 1982 citizenship law under which only descendants of ethnic groups who lived in Burma before colonisation fully qualify for citizenship. Further, states will have the right to use land and resources, while the union receives revenue through a federal fiscal sharing. ‘Member states’, it declares, ‘are the original owners of sovereignty’ and ‘the original owner of all land and resource management is the people who live in the land’. The NUG Charter of a Democratic Federal Union emphasises equal rights among Myanmar’s states, who would have their own constitutions and legislative and judicial powers. One third of the 27 ministers are from non-Burman ethnic groups, termed ethnic nationalities. The prime minister is from the Karen ethnic group. Besides the NLD parliamentarians, who now operate underground, the NUG symbolically includes the ousted president Win Myint and state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The NUG includes parliamentarians from the National League for Democracy (NLD), ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), civil society organisations, women and young Generation Z activists from the civil disobedience movement.
Meanwhile anti-coup forces have formed a National Unity Government (NUG) and drafted a federal constitution as an alternative to the 2008 military constitution.
Hospitals, education, transportation and banks are paralysed by strikes. The Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) continues its terror and arrests amid increased civilian resistance to the February 2021 coup - resistance which has included armed civilians attacking soldiers. Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the PacificĪuthor: Mikael Gravers, Aarhus University
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