National Defence and Security Council of Republic of Union of Myanmar holds meeting 1/2022
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On 5 February, those who had no right to standing as Hluttaw representatives formed an unlawful committee namely the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) and transformed the situations from the riots to the anarchic mobs. Security forces managed to control it with the least strength at the lowest level. The terrorist group CRPH named the 27 March as the Public Revolution Day and mobilized the occurrence of the terror attacks across the nation. It started terrorism to cause utter devastation.
The unlawful CRPH formed the parallel government called NUG to provide assistance for terrorist attacks and tolead these movements.
Extremist NLD members and their followers utilize the youths to urge them to attend the military training in EAO areas such as KNU, KIA and KNPP areas. CRPH, NUG and PDF terrorist groups declared the acceleration of terrorist acts on 7 September and committed terrorist attacks as war crimes in some parts of Chin State, Magway Region, Sagaing Region and Kayah State. Those crime-committing terrorists staying among civilians perpetrate attacks. So the Tatmadaw, in difficulty, controlled the tasks not to harm the innocent people. Those terrorists commit attacks with the use of homemade mines and bombs on a wider scale with the training and assistance of some EAOs.
Due to acts of terrorists, a large number of public and government buildings, including 525 roads and bridges, 27 hospitals and clinics, 504 schools and educational buildings were destroyed across the nation from 1 February 2021 to 20 January 2022. With regard to casualties, 20 members of the Sangha and 95 Government service personnel were dead in the incidents and civilians, including 153 Government service personnel, were injured. There were 9,437 terrorist attacks the whole year with seizures of 5,606 assorted arms, 161,556 rounds of ammunition, 1,890 grenades and 11,424 homemade mines and bombs in addition to arresting 4,338 terrorists.
Esteemed ethnic nationals, I’d like to explain measures on the education sector.
Every country accepts that human resource is crucial for the sustainable development of the nation. The human resource depends on “knowledge”.
According to Section 28 of our Constitution (2008), the State shall implement the compulsory primary education system.
Section 366 stipulates “Every citizen, in accord with the educational policy laid down by the Union: (a) has the right to education; and (b) shall be given basic education which the Union prescribed by law as compulsory”.
According to our interim census enumerated in 2019, there were some 18.2 million adults above 25 years who missed the chance to learn the middle school education and lower level, which was one-third of the total population of the nation. Hence, emphasis is being placed on the enhancement of the education sector. There are 6,178 basic education high schools, 15,877 basic education middle schools, and 25,705 basic education primary schools, totalling 47,760 across the nation. These schools were closed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As now we can control the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have been reopened. In so doing, a total of 5,209 basic education high schools, 12,786 basic education middle schools and 21,247 basic education primary schools, totally of 39,242 have been reopened.
At the opening of the schools, more than 80 percent of the enrolled ones are attending the schools. As declared, we will hold the final examination in the last week of March and the first week of April. So, I’d like to inform the students and parents not to lose their rights in the delay of attending the schools. We are welcoming to all. Learning the education is not for the government but the improvement of their lives. In this regard, so-called NUG, CRPH and PDF terrorists commit incitements not to attend the schools, causing the offspring of the people uneducated and the nation and the people enslaved.
The government is striving for arranging the plans for all school-age children to finish the learning of KG+9 (middle school level). Only when they complete the KG+9 level can they change learning to vocational training.
The KG+9 is just an educational aim of the government. As education is playing a key role in Myanmar’s democracy and future of the nation, citizens need to emphasize not missing the chance of learning.
Esteemed ethnic nationals, I’d like to present measures of the health sector.
About the health sector, my policy is that “if one is healthy, one can work.
If one is healthy, one can learn”. As such, health is playing a pivotal role among the people. COVID-19 pandemic was found in our country on 23 March 2020. During the highest infection period in the third and fourth weeks of July, some 5,000 people on average were infected per day, accounting for 41 percent. I adopted the policy that “Do it speedily and practically;
To be continued