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The Unique Start of 2025: Political Solutions or Military Escalation? – Issue 161

The beginning of 2025 in the Spring Revolution is distinctly unique. The revolutionary forces concluded 2024 by seizing control of numerous camps and towns, leading the junta to lose up to 95 towns. As a result, the junta is now forced to call for dialogue, with the Chinese government stepping in to pressure the Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations (EROs).

The capture of camps and towns in the fight to end military dictatorship, combined with factors such as the growing military momentum of the revolutionary forces, the junta’s increasingly evident signs of defeat, changes within the NUG, the political steps taken by the United League of Arakan/Arakha Army (ULA/AA), and the discussions among certain politicians at the Ngwe Saung Gathering, all contributed to making the start of the year 2025 particularly significant.

Bi-Weekly News Review by Burma News International (BNI)-Myanmar Peace Monitor (MPM) highlights the factors that have made the beginning of the year 2025 in the Spring Revolution particularly unique.

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Karen National Union (KNU)

Arakan National Council (ANC/AA)

All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF)

Chin National Front (CNF/CNA)

Karen National Union (KNU)

Arakan National Council (ANC/AA)

All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF)

Chin National Front (CNF/CNA)

Arakan Liberation Party/Army (ALP/ALA)

Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA)

Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA)

Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP/KA)

Kuki National Organization (Burma)

Lahu Democratic Union (LDU)

Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA)

National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS)

New Mon State Party (NMSP)

National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K)

Pa-Oh National Liberation Organization (PNLO)

The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF/TNLA)

The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS/SSA – South)

Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA – North)

United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA)

UWSP/UWSA