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FILE - Min Ko Naing, a leader of Myanmar prominent 88 Generation Student Group, stands up during an inauguration ceremony of a free clinic to mark the 6th month since Win's death, Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar’s military ruling council has announced the revocation of the citizenship of Min Ko Naing and other top members of the main group coordinating resistance to army rule, who in turn dismissed the move with scorn on Saturday, March 5, 2022.(AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The top members of the main group coordinating resistance to army rule have their citizenship revoked.

11 leaders of the opposition to military rule have had their citizenship terminated because they fled the country and harmed the national interest, according to an announcement broadcasted on Friday.

The National Unity Government, which is made up of eight members, views itself as the country's legitimate ruling authority.

When the military seized power in February last year, elected legislators were barred from taking their seats. Some U.N. experts have characterized the resistance to the takeover as a civil war.

The members of the NUG Cabinet responded to the announcement on Saturday.

The announcement was illegal because the military council is not the legitimate government according to the human rights minister.

It's a joke that Cabinet members can't have their citizenship revoked by the military junta. Nothing can stop us from loving our country.

The foreign minister of the group wrote that coupmakers pretending to be a government and stripping away citizenship doesn't make him less fond of the country. They don't have the right to strip people of their citizenship.

The other eight opposition Cabinet members have been charged with high treason, which carries a potential death penalty, and other political offenses.

Min Ko Naing was a leader of the failed 1988 uprising against a previous military dictatorship.

According to the announcement, the termination of citizenship was done according to the 1982 law of the country.

Most NUG leaders are hiding in border areas controlled by armed ethnic minority groups sympathetic to them, while others operate from abroad.

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