Myanmar’s NUG negotiates ethnic differences as crisis deepens

Administration set up in wake of the 2021 coup is also battling international indifference as conflict fades from headlines. In response, the minister told Al Jazeera that the case was “in process for legal action” and that the NUG was “doing a lot of things to prevent this kind of thing by adopting the military code of conduct that applies to every single member of the Peoples Defence Forces: to obey and to respect.” Bamar domination Further hampering the NUG’s efforts to create sustainable support is the diversity of ethnic groups that make up Myanmar, many of which were fighting against the military long before the latest coup. “It is important to bring trust, and also proof that the NUG collaborating with the different ethnic groups.” In the interview with Al Jazeera, Aung Myo Min acknowledged the failure of Aung San Suu Kyi, who the military has jailed, to adequately address the 2017 military crackdown, which forced nearly a million Rohingya into southern Bangladesh. The NUG has “a deliberately diverse cabinet, compared to the blatantly Burman-dominated NLD”, Nick Cheesman, from the Australian National University’s Myanmar Research Centre, told Al Jazeera. “The NUG cabinet has a lot of non-Burman members, including its acting president, and acting PM, federal union minister, labour minister, women’s affairs minister, international cooperation minister and natural resources minister,” he said, adding that while there is no Rohingya minister or deputy yet, the human rights minister has promised there will be.