In recent days and months, there have been reports that the Arakan Army (AA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) will hold ceasefire or peace talks with the coup military council. The Arakan Army and the TNLA have also announced that they are ready for political discussions.
However, discussions with the Arakan Army will be more different and complex than those with the MNDAA and TNLA. The Arakan Army’s attacks and conquests of Kyaukphyu, where the current remaining natural gas resources and Chinese investments are located in Arakan Land, and the Rakhine State capital of the coup military council, Sittwe, where the Indian project is located, the intensification of offensives into 3 plains regions of Myanmar, and the ceasefire negotiations are interconnected and proportional. Arakan’s natural resources and investment projects also play a major role in this.
Arakan Land possesses a strategically important geographical location in terms of natural resources, as well as economic, political, and military aspects, but has lost everything under the Burmese unitary system. At this time, it has become necessary to officially obtain the rightful rights to Arakan’s resources and other projects.
Just as the success of the talks is important, the outcome of the talks must also be worthy of the sacrifices made by the people of Arakan Land. In particular, it is believed that the Arakan Army will be able to regain the losses and damages related to Arakan’s resources and end the Arakan resource curse.
Therefore, in writing this article, it is intended to support the ending of the resource curse with the hope of serving the interests of the people of Arakan Land, who have lost all their resource rights under the Burmese unitary government.
