Analysis: Can Myanmar's Generals Keep Tenuous Grip on Power
Myanmar’s generals are expected to extend the state of emergency that's been in place since the military took power in a coup in February 2021. Aung Kyaw Moe, a minister in the country’s National Unity Government trying to restore civilian rule to the Myanmar, speaks to TaiwanPlus.
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00:00So, we're expecting that the junta will be extending the state of emergency in Myanmar.
00:05Why might the generals do that?
00:08First of all, from day one, where the attempt to continue declarations of a state of emergency
00:15has been illegal, is not legitimate, and people have been speaking about, and the very constitution
00:24that they have written, the military, it's against those institutions that the government
00:31has abolished.
00:32And, of course, that's the only way, the exit, they're trying to find every opportunities
00:37to maintain the power that they attempted to grab in 2021.
00:43What does control of the country look like at the top, and what does it look like in
00:47reality on the ground in Myanmar?
00:49I think the perceptions and reality have a big gap there.
00:52The international community perceive that the military still holds significant territory
00:58of the country and able to govern the country.
01:02In reality, they are not able to govern the country, and the territory that they control
01:08is very small compared to what the revolutionary force has, revolutionary government and ethnic
01:19resistance organizations has been controlling.
01:22So this is big, the collapse of junta near Fisher, and they are, has not been in good
01:31shape to be maintaining the power, even the extended state of emergency or not, that doesn't
01:38matter.
01:39They are very much in survival mode, and we don't know when they're going to be dying.
01:43We're still seeing a lot of conflict, a lot of people displaced, but what sort of system
01:48of governance is there on the ground in areas that have been liberated by revolutionary
01:53forces?
01:54The cost that we are bearing is from life to livelihood.
01:58It's to end the dictatorship for once and for all, even though the cost is very high,
02:04the upcoming generations doesn't need to bear those costs if we are bearing those costs
02:09at once.
02:10I think the governance that we are trying, putting in place, and the rule of law, like
02:18rehabilitations, reconstructions of the cities come with this public service delivery as
02:23well, and ensuring the safety and security of the civilian, despite there could be rigs
02:30of airstrike by the junta indiscriminately, we are doing our best to deliver public service
02:37to the people of Myanmar in the territory that we control.