The Chairman of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), General N ’Ban La, said that they will try to establish a federal state based on the Panglong Agreement in coordination with anti-military dictatorship resistance forces.

Speaking to the 63rd-anniversary event to mark the founding of the KIO on 25 October, General N ’Ban La said that people in every corner of Myanmar are facing serious troubles, and the country is heading towards becoming a failed state.

He added that the Military Council is forcing people to serve in militia groups that attack resistance forces.

“The Myanmar military is trying to cause dissent amongst the people. We seriously advise the people not to join militia groups,” he said.

The KIO General also said that the world has noticed that many people in Myanmar have been forcibly displaced as the Military Council is torturing and killing civilians.

He suggested people should not support the Military Council’s general election as it is not the right strategy to solve the crisis in the country.

The Military Council sees the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the KIO as a considerable threat, as they have been supplying weapons and training to resistance forces since the coup in February 2021.

The junta has been more active in Kachin State. On 23 October 2022, the Myanmar Air Force carried out an aerial attack on an open-air music concert near A Nan Pa Village in Hpakant Township, killing more than 80 people.

In a recent attack on an IDP village near Laiza, at least 29 people, were killed.

Since the coup, the Myanmar military has claimed thousands of lives, and more than 1.6 million people have been internally displaced, bringing the total to close to 2 million displaced.