Anti-Dictatorship Forces Coordination Committee – Mandalay
The Anti-Junta Forces Coordination Committee – Mandalay (AFCC) is made up of 62 participating organizations, strike groups and civil forces.
On August 12, 2021, it announced its full support for the "interim National Unity Government – NUG" for the credentials of representatives to represent Myanmar at the United Nations.
On September 7, 2021, it issued an emergency statement on the people's revolution, saying that revolutionary forces would continue to fight in the current people's revolution and earnestly urging the whole people to take part from whatever role they can in the people's revolution to uproot military dictatorship. On November 28, 2021, it issued a statement for the 101st National Day. On December 8, 2021, it urged the people of Mandalay to join the nationwide Silent Strike on Human Rights Day, December 10. On January 2, 2022, through the revolutionary forces' position statement, it issued, with 273 organizations, a position on the state of Myanmar's 2021 Spring Revolution. On January 22, 2022, it urged participation in a Silent Strike and a clapping strike (noise strike) under the slogan "Strive to Return Home". On February 1, 2022, it issued a statement on the first anniversary of the Spring Revolution, including that the past year of revolution had best proven that, however much the fascist junta represses and uses violence, it "can never rule" this country. On April 13, 2022, it urged people to take part in a "people's movement" suited to the revolutionary period, directly supporting the revolution and in keeping with Thingyan traditions, to make it a true "revolutionary Thingyan". On May 1, 2022, it issued a statement for the 132nd International Workers' Day. On May 2, 2022, it issued a position on the terrorist coup junta's fake, sham peace invitation. On May 31, 2022, it issued a statement strongly objecting to and condemning ASEAN, the AHA Centre and relevant international organizations for channelling humanitarian assistance for Myanmar into the hands of the terrorist coup junta. On July 29, 2022, it announced that "public pledge ceremonies", at which the whole people would make pledges according to their own faiths, would be held across the country.
On September 2, 2022, it began campaigning under the slogan "Accept NUG and Our Ambassador, Reject Dictator". On September 20, 2022, it issued a statement on the terrorist military council's air strike on the school in Let Yet Kone village, Depayin Township, Sagaing Region. On October 24, 2022, it issued a statement on the military council air force's bombing of A Nang Pa in Hpakant Township, Kachin State. On December 5, 2022, it issued a statement on the terrorist military council's unjust death sentences on 11 student youths, including seven Dagon University students. On Human Rights Day, December 10, 2022, it held the Mandalay youth International Human Rights Day movement. On January 4, 2023, it issued a position on the illegitimate election the terrorist junta is trying to hold. On January 24, 2023, it urged people to oppose, boycott and fight by every possible means the sham election without public will that the terrorist military council plans to hold. On January 31, 2023, it urged people to join the "Stay Home Silent Strike" on February 1, 2023, the second anniversary of the Spring Revolution. On March 6, 2023, it issued a statement on the Prisons Department's excessive force against women political prisoners in Mandalay Central Prison (Obo). It also urged participation in the third Global Blood Money Campaign from March 11 to 19, 2023. On March 18, 2023, it also ran appeals under the slogan "Fight the Fascist Election, March On Holding the Federal Democracy Charter". On March 19, 2023, it also ran a campaign to change Facebook profile frames, to show that the Federal Democracy Charter (FDC) alone is our path and our goal. On April 11, 2023, under the slogan "We Reject Military Business, Revolutionary Thingyan, the People's Voice", it urged people not to enjoy military-owned products or the Thingyan pavilions staged at the military council's behest, but to celebrate a revolutionary Thingyan. It issued a statement on the terrorist coup military's bombing on the morning of April 11, 2023, of Pazigyi village, Mala Lay village tract, Kanbalu Township, Sagaing Region, with one jet fighter and one Mi-35 heavy attack helicopter, which killed and injured hundreds of civilians, including pregnant mothers and children. It wrote that the whole people, still living and fighting, had resolved that any merit made on New Year's Day, April 17, 2023, would be dedicated to the people who lost their lives in Pazigyi village. It also took part in the flower strike on June 19, 2023. On July 19, 2023, it issued writings commemorating the Martyrs' Day of July 19, 2022, by imprisoned comrades in Mandalay's Obo Prison. On the same day, Battalion (3) and Battalion (1) of the Mandalay strike forces jointly held a Martyrs' Day salute and an anti-dictatorship strike.
On July 22, 2022, it wrote and issued an article, "The Heroes' Aspirations, Marching On with the People's Strength", about the martyrs who fell resisting evil times and systems and the heroes recorded in history from successive revolutions.
The AFCC cooperates with groups taking part in the revolution and is a member organization of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC).
Reference
1. https://www.facebook.com/AFCCMandalay
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