Irrawaddy-Based IDLA Army Formed
In Announcement No. 2 issued on February 28, Mann Phan Shaung, Chair of the Irrawaddy Delta Nationalities State Council, announced that the Irrawaddy Delta Liberation Army (IDLA) was formed on January 1, 2025, with four objectives, including fighting the Four Cuts strategy.
The IDLA aims to completely (completely) abolish the military government, military dictatorship and all military bureaucratic machinery in the Irrawaddy Delta Nationalities State; to protect the lives and property of the people of all ethnic groups in the state; to firmly defend and safeguard the state constitution; and to stand firmly as one of the forces in a future federal army.
The state council was formed on August 1, 2024, and the announcement also lists by name the council advisers and council members added in its expansion.
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