MizzimaNews.com-Feb 8
Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing recently held the first cabinet meeting of the year, on February 2, and talked about the sectors that would be prioritized in 2022. At the meeting the junta made a statement about the three tasks they would prioritize in 2022: to improve the economy; to set up a genuine, disciplined multi-party democracy through the general election scheduled for 2023; and to form an all-inclusive defense system. Min Aung Hlaing said conscription with a one to two-year term of military service will be implemented. “If we do not have a defense capability, our country will be assaulted by the others”, he said. Among the three tasks of the junta, the first one, the development of the economy, seems possible. The military council has taken control of the economic system with the help and support of private bankers. International humanitarian organizations may help keep the junta in power because they bring dollars into the country to pay for aid and put it in banks controlled by military cronies. The multiparty democracy system will still be put into action by the junta without the public’s support. The military and its allied parties will continue on this path even as the spring revolution gains momentum and the rebellion against the military gets stronger. Min Aung Hlaing is dreaming with his plan to implement conscription law. It is impossible for the military to give the young people military training and weapons for the sake of their security. Conscription is just a way for the junta to legitimize them giving weapons to their pro-regime supporters. Read more at: https://www.mizzima.com/article/myanmar-military-junta-discusses-economy-voting-system-and-controversial-conscription
