New alliance aims to unite revolutionary forces in Myanmar 'heartland'

By Admin 15 Aug 2025

DMG Newsroom

15 August 2025, Sittwe

The Nationwide Revolutionary Alliance (NRA) was formed on August 13, with the aim of uniting the scattered revolutionary forces and bringing about their victory as soon as possible.

The NRA said it would coordinate and work to unify the local defence forces and groups that are still scattered across Myanmar's "heartland" regions of Sagaing, Magway, and Mandalay.

"There are still scattered regional defence forces and groups in Myanmar's heartland today. We need to work with them to find solutions, to provide them with the resources they need to carry out their military operations, including finances, weapons, food, and medicine, so that we can work together militarily and politically," U Myo Htike Tan Thein, chairman of the NRA foreign affairs commission, told DMG.

He continued that the NRA will completely oppose any dictatorship, and will unite the scattered armed resistance forces and political forces to jointly coordinate military and revolutionary strategies and programmes.

"Our main goal is to win the war," he added. "We oppose the military dictatorship and all authoritarian regimes in Burma. Our aim is to unite the scattered revolutionary forces and work together to form a united, strong, and united force, through our alliance with all those who are fighting to eradicate the military dictatorship in Myanmar."

The NRA was formed by military and political analysts U Than Soe Naing, U Lu Myat Kyaw, and U Myo Htike Tan Thein, among others. The NRA team includes military, legal, financial, and foreign relations experts.

Political analysts have pointed out that the NRA should include ethnic armed groups, political parties, and parties with military and political affiliations.

"Only by achieving the desired goal and motivation will we succeed," said an Arakanese politician who did not want to be named. "Now, the NRA is being formed as a fantasy. It's really a dream. But it's not an alliance that will work. If I were to point out something positive, I would say that forming this group is not a group that will work."

The NRA statement said that it will prioritise the military-political process in accordance with the needs of the revolution and build a revolutionary army that is balanced and integrated with military and political forces.

A young social activist from Yangon said, "I think the formation of the NRA is just another group in the name of the military alliance. Even if we are going to form a group, we must first cooperate with groups that already have an image. Only then will it be possible to continue the work to eradicate the military dictatorship."

The NRA will work together with all revolutionary forces through military, political, and diplomatic means to establish a new state with a federal democratic system, based on equality and mutual respect, the statement said.

The NRA announced that it will work together in practice with revolutionary forces and various ethnic groups based on equality and mutual respect in establishing a federal democratic system.