Bamar

The Tatmadaw has deployed its indiscriminate “four cuts” strategy against the very people it swears to protect; the heinous tactics once used with impunity in ethnic minority areas have now been set loose on the Bamar heartland.

The Bamar majority are a fundamental force for change.

The recent fighting is unusual because many civilians from the country’s Bamar ethnic majority have taken up arms alongside ethnic groups that have been battling the army for decades.

The state is home to Shan, Bamar, Pa-O, Palaung, Lahu, Danu, Kokang, Akha, Wa, Kachin and other groups with ethnicity-based political parties.

In 1941, his reputation as an anti-colonial nationalist and prominent figure in Doh Bamar Asiayon (the We Burmans Association) earned him a place on the British authorities’ “Burma List”, making him an “enemy of the state”.

As international outcry grows over the Bamar military’s ongoing and depraved campaign of genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, more Americans are demanding action.

AYU members rejected the claim and accused the dominant Bamar group of defaming the AYU.