Formed two months after the February 1 coup, the National Unity Government (NUG) is comprised of ousted politicians and the heads of many of Myanmar’s ethnic groups.
- Mazoe Ford and Jason Dasey
- ABC
Sharing his demands on Facebook, the NUG’s acting president Duwa Lashi La called for “a people’s defensive war against the military junta”, and urged ethnic organisations to immediately attack coup leader Min Aung Hlaing.
He also called on soldiers, police and civil servants to defect to the “public revolution”…