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Myanmar's junta called connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) for ex-civil servants who discontinue their jobs successful protestation implicit the coup 5 years agone to study backmost to work, pledging to region absent authorities employees from "blacklists".
After the subject snatched powerfulness successful a coup connected February 1, 2021, tens of thousands of nationalist workers, including doctors and authorities administrators, near their posts successful a surge of civilian disobedience.
Some recovered backstage employment, portion others joined pro-democracy rebels defying the subject successful a civilian warfare that has killed tens of thousands connected each sides. Last week, the junta completed a month-long predetermination it has touted arsenic a instrumentality to civilian rule.
But the ascendant pro-military enactment won a walkover triumph successful a ballot ideology watchdogs accidental was stacked with service allies to prolong its grip connected power.
The junta's National Defence and Security Council said civilian servants who "left their workplaces without support for assorted reasons" since February 2021 should "report and marque interaction with the offices of their erstwhile departments".
"Following verification, employees recovered not to person committed immoderate offence, arsenic good arsenic those who had committed offences but person already served their sentences and whose names inactive look connected the blacklists, are being removed from the blacklists," the assembly said successful a connection published successful the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
Public employees who had been absent from enactment were placed connected blacklists, "leading immoderate to stay successful hiding", it added.
After the coup, successful which the subject ousted the elected authorities of antiauthoritarian figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, tens of thousands of striking nationalist workers joined the "Civil Disobedience Movement" successful protest.
The junta responded with a crackdown connected demonstrators, relying connected tips from informers and astonishment raids to circular up those connected strike. Today, much than 22,000 radical are languishing successful junta jails, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners monitoring group.
Suu Kyi remains successful subject detention, and her massively fashionable enactment has been dissolved. The junta's phased elections ended past Sunday without voting successful 1 successful 5 of Myanmar's townships, amid warring that has near ample swaths of the state extracurricular subject control.
Parties that won 90% of seats successful the erstwhile predetermination successful 2020 — won successful a landslide by Suu Kyi's enactment — did not look connected the ballot this time, the Asian Network for Free Elections said.
