BANGKOK --
Myanmar's ruling army council has introduced the revocation of the citizenship of high members of the principle group coordinating resistance to military rule.
The announcement broadcast on state-run MRTV tv on Friday stated 11 leaders of the opposition to army rule have had their citizenship terminated as a result of that they had allegedly fled the nation and harmed the nationwide curiosity.
It focused eight members of the shadow Nationwide Unity Authorities, which views itself because the nation's professional ruling authority, and three distinguished activists.
The NUG was established by elected legislators who had been barred from taking their seats when the army seized energy in February final yr, ousting the civilian authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi. Resistance to the takeover has now led to what some U.N. consultants have characterised as a civil struggle.
A minimum of two members of the NUG Cupboard named within the announcement responded on Twitter on Saturday.
Aung Myo Min, the human rights minister who has been touring in Europe to hunt assist for Myanmar resistance motion, stated the announcement was unlawful as a result of the army council will not be the professional authorities.
"Ceasing citizenship of Cupboard members by terrorist army junta is only a joke. Nothing can cease our like to our nation," Aung Myo Min wrote.
The group's international minister, Zin Mar Aung, wrote that "Simply because coupmakers pretending to be a authorities and strip away my citizenship doesn't make me love Myanmar much less. They don't have the rights to strip folks's citizenship away."
The opposite eight opposition Cupboard members named within the army's announcement have been charged with excessive treason, which carries a possible dying penalty, and different political offenses.
The three activists had been Min Ko Naing, a pacesetter of a failed 1988 rebellion in opposition to a earlier army dictatorship, Eaint Poe Ou, also referred to as Pencilo, and Myo Yan Naung Thein.
The "Termination of Citizenship" announcement stated it was issued in line with the 1982 Myanmar citizenship regulation and that "related perpetrators will probably be recognized and prosecuted."
Most NUG leaders are believed to be in hiding in border areas managed by armed ethnic minority teams sympathetic to them, whereas others function from overseas.
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