Press release of an ultimatum demanding “the total and immediate
withdrawal of the administrative apparatus of the Burmese regime and all
Burmese armed forces from Arakan”
United League of Arakan/Arakan Army, which was formed comprising
of all peoples of Arakan and ethnic minorities with the aims for the liberation
of the entire oppressed population of Arakan from the Burmese colonial
occupation and misrule, the right of national equality and self-determination,
the regaining of national losses and entitlements of the Arakanese, and the
emergence of a new society of Arakan which is secure, peace, developed, free
and dignified, has been implementing the Arakanese national goal in line with
“the Way of Rakhita”.
It is hereby notified that no armed forces of the Burmese regime
in Arakan shall be accepted by the ULA/AA. Myanmar Police Force and Border
Guard Forces, which are under the control and subdivisions of the Myanmar Military
under the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services , have been collaborating to
carry out operations support activities for the Myanmar Army’s offensive
attacks against the Arakan Army, arbitrary detention and torture of civilians
of Arakan in the four-cuts campaign of the Myanmar Army. This is an ultimatum
that all Burmese armed forces must be undertaken the total and immediate
withdrawal from Arakan because they are not providing the general public of
Arakan any legal protections but oppressing peoples and abusing power to detain
civilians.
The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army, hand in hand with the
entire population of Arakan, will also abolish and drive the colonial
administrative apparatus of the Burmese regime and the war criminals Burmese
armed forces out of Arakan. The Arakan Army has launched a warning attack
against one of the Border Guard Forces of the Burmese regime, Thazin Myaing
outpost, in Rathedaung township at 02:05 am on 29 May 2020. In fact, the Thazin
Myaing outpost is a military stronghold under the banner of Border Guard
Forces, from which the Burmese troops have been shelling villages and launching
offensive assaults. The decisive action we have taken against it is also a
retaliation that last a few days ago the Myanmar Army conducted the raid with
excessive forces on our small outpost and another small camp where our injured
troops are receiving medical treatment. Some ammunitions were seized and six
members of the Burmese armed group were captured as prisoners of war. Two women
and a 2-year-old child were released in good shape in a secure place after each
were given 40,000 Kyats.
The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army has refrained from harming
civilians, women and children, the elderly, and handicapped in this national
liberation struggle. Despite being a revolutionary organization, we strictly
comply with laws of war. Therefore, in accordance with international
humanitarian laws we are taking care of prisoners of war, who were captured in
the battles, at our best. In the same way, we have released non-military
persons several times irrespective of religion and race under safe
circumstances.
Sometimes we summoned and interrogated some profligate informers
trained by the Myanmar Army, obstructers against the Arakan Army, those who are
threatening life of people of Arakan and Arakanese traitors. But we used to
release unsuspicious persons from such investigations under mutually safe
circumstances. We have already conveyed U Soe Thu Win, a rural health worker,
from Zee-Tan-Kone village in Rathedaung township to the hands of elders of the
community and village administrators in school of Ngwe-Taung village in
Buthidaung township in good shape at 6:00 am on 29 May 2020 after a few days of
the investigation.
The entire population of Arakan are yearning for the total and
immediate withdrawal of the colonial administrative apparatus of the Burmese
regime and all Burmese armed forces from Arakan in believing that national
reconciliation among all peoples in the region of Arakan, regional stability,
development, freedom and peace will be genuinely possible only when there are
no Burmese rule and its armed forces presence in Arakan. Therefore,
international families should help our struggle for humanity. The fact that
people of Arakan are not willing to see any armed forces of the Burmese regime
including the Myanmar Army which has been conducting a campaign of state
genocide based on racial hatred against peoples of Arakan, other minorities and
even the civil servants who are pillars of the Burmese colonial rule, the
Burmese authorities must go back to their native land peacefully with their own
conscience in consideration of long-term prospects for mutual interests.
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