Since subversive media outlets and some terrorist groups are inciting the people against People’s Military Service Law, criticisms and concerns have arisen among the people. Accordingly, State Administration Council Information Team Leader Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun made the following clarifications on People’s Military Service Law on 13 February for broader understanding of ethnic nationals as well as the entire population;
- Subversive media, insurgent organizations and terrorist organizations are making incitements regarding the enforcement of People’s Military Service Law and Reserve Forces Law, creating misleading feeling among the people and some young people.
- They are pushing the youths towards outside the legal order to become terrorists like them. They are targeting the patriotic youths of nationalists who live inside the legal order in order to change their path.
- The SAC Chairman Prime Minister said to the representatives of political parties during the meet, “All ethnic nationals including the youths must comprehend national defence duty rather than internal and external dangers. They all have obligations to safeguard Our Three Main National Courses”.
- It is just for the purpose of serving security forces in their own community after military training. It aims to understand how to fulfil security and defence duties under which outlook rather than the fight against the enemy.
- Under People’s Military Service Law, the Committees on Summoning People’s Military Servants will be formed at all levels of region, township and ward/village to summon them in a systematic order.
Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun concluded that the entire population and the people including the youths shall have to perform in conjunction with the sense and the awareness. All are required to comprehend and learn the knowledge and art regarding national defence and security in order to endure the term “Myanmar” until the world ends.
Source: Myawady Daily Newspaper (15-2-2024)
- Subversive media, insurgent organizations and terrorist organizations are making incitements regarding the enforcement of People’s Military Service Law and Reserve Forces Law, creating misleading feeling among the people and some young people.
- They are pushing the youths towards outside the legal order to become terrorists like them. They are targeting the patriotic youths of nationalists who live inside the legal order in order to change their path.
- It is just for the purpose of serving security forces in their own community after military training. It aims to understand how to fulfil security and defence duties under which outlook rather than the fight against the enemy.
- Under People’s Military Service Law, the Committees on Summoning People’s Military Servants will be formed at all levels of region, township and ward/village to summon them in a systematic order.