February 2, 2023 (Narinjara) and leaked report from KhitThit Media

At the NDSC (the National Defense and Security Councilmeeting: 1/2023) held on themorning of January 31, the junta ‘s top security officials concluded the the country was currently“ not normal “.

In addition to this, the Military Council announced that onFebruary 1st, the NDSC willrelease what is needed to bring stability to the country.

In the meeting, CRPH, NUG and PDF were portrayed as“terrorist groups who want to completelydestroy the state and are trying to seize state power through insurgency and violence.”

The meeting was held yesterday morning at the meeting hallof the State AdministrationCouncil Chairman’sOffice in Naypyidaw. It was attended by Acting President U Myint Swe, Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw U T KhunMyat, Military Council ChairmanSenior General Min Aung Hlaing, Vice Chairman Vice Senior General Soe Win, Minister of Defense General MyaTun Oo, Minister of Home Affairs LieutenantGeneral Soe Htut, Minister of Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin andMinister of Border AffairsLieutenant General Tun Tun Naung.

However a far worse situation for the coup regime emergesfrom leaked minutes from atop-level “counterterrorism” meeting led by Home Affairs Minister Lieutenant-General Soe Htut in December.

Theminutes from the meeting reveal thejunta is at its wit’s end in trying to contain the mushrooming of PDFs and lack of public support “ to crush theNational Unity Government (NUG).”

The leaked document. comes from a December meeting of theCentral Committee for Counter-Terrorism, shared online by Khit Thit Media. Itreveals that the 50 high ranking security and intelligence officials arrived at two keyconclusions :

1) that resistance forces known collectively as People’sDefense Forces (PDFs) had expanded beyond control, and PDF attacks are expected tointensify this year.

2) none of the officials present at the meeting wereconfident the regime will be able to successfully hold the election planned in August.

Attending this meeting were more than 50 senior regimeofficials including deputy ministers for home affairs, defense, and border affairs,senior police officers, military intelligence officials, and security and border affairsofficials at the regional and state levels.

The announcement will be made by the National Defense andSecurity Council on

February 1, 2023 about on their plan for ending thecountry’s abnormal situation.