Burma’s military, officially known as the Tatmadaw, strongly condemned a Burmese broadcaster for calling an ethnic armed organization the “Rakhine Tatmadaw” and referring to Tatmadaw troops as “government forces,” according to a military statement released Tuesday night.
MRTV-4, a private broadcaster affiliated with Burma’s Ministry of Information, aired a story on Friday in which it reported that 1,100 locals in Arakan State, also known as Rakhine State, were recently displaced by fighting between the “Rakhine Tatmadaw”—in reference to the Arakan Army—and “government forces.”
The military took exception to the word “Tatmadaw” being used to describe any group that is not the state armed forces, officially translated as the Defense Services in English. Further stoking ire was the replacement of the word Tatmadaw with “government forces,” a term which the military apparently felt had diminished its authority. (Courtesy of Irrawaddy)
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