Karenni State youth organizations call political party candidates in regime 2025-26 elections ‘traitors’

Youth representatives from 108 organizations in Karenni State called on residents to boycott the regime’s 2025-26 elections, calling political party candidates as “traitors to the Karenni people.”

Khun Thomas, head of the Karenni Interim Executive Council (IEC) Youth Affairs Department, told DVB that a meeting bringing together all 108 organizations was held at an undisclosed location Dec. 18-20.

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The National Unity Government (NUG), a group established after the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021 to represent elected lawmakers, labelled 33 members of the military regime in Naypyidaw, including its leader Min Aung Hlaing, as “terrorists” on Dec. 21. 

The 33 members include Porel Aung Thein, the pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Karenni State chairperson No. 1, and Saw Daniel, a Loikaw Township candidate for the Kayah State People’s Party (KySPP), which was formed by pro-regime politicians in the Karenni State capital on Dec. 26, 2024.