The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) has removed all ethnic armed organizations from the list of terrorist organizations and unlawful associations, according to the statement by the CRPH on March 17th.

Since the coup the CRPH has operated as a body of parliamentarians in hiding, exercising their mandate from the 2020 election to represent the legitimacy of the ousted democratic government.  

In its March 5th statement, the CRPH has announced the political objectives of elimination of military dictatorship, release of all detainees including President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the achievement of democracy, the abolishment of the 2008 Constitution and development of a constitution based on federalism.

The committee considers all arrests and detention under Section 17 (1) of the Unlawful Association Act for engagement with ethnic armed revolutionary organizations in order to fight for national equality and self-determination as illegitimate, and condemns all arrests and charges under this law.

The committee expresses its profound gratitude to all ethnic armed revolutionary organizations which are providing care and protection to civil servants who are participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement, against the unlawful orders and mandates of illegitimate military coup council, and the people who are opposing the acts of injustice and violence of the terrorist military coup.   

The committee sincerely recognizes records and congratulates all ethnic armed revolutionary organizations, which are making efforts to bring together all brothers and sisters and to imbue them with a strong commitment to the building of the federal democratic union.