Yangon, Myanmar
A group of opponents of Myanmar’s military government declared the country’s 2008 constitution void and put forward an interim replacement charter late Wednesday in a major political challenge to the ruling junta.
The actions were taken by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), an underground, self-styled alternative government established by elected lawmakers who were not allowed to take their seats when the military staged the coup in February and ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The CRPH, which represents the National Parliament, made the announcements on social media.
The moves, while more symbolic than practical, could help woo the armed ethnic militias in the countryside to ally themselves with the mass protest movement against the military’s seizure of power in February.
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