However, analysts and local residents say the junta chief’s rhetoric is entirely detached from the grim reality on the ground. Over the past 100 days, living conditions across Myanmar have drastically deteriorated, marked by forced conscription, arbitrary arrests, severe restrictions on border trade, and hyperinflation. While the junta claims to have held talks with 13 Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and called for a peaceful political resolution, human rights advocates reject the regime’s peace overtures. Nai Aue Mon, program director of the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), emphasized that the junta’s strategy relies on brutal military force rather than genuine dialogue. Furthermore, young men drafted under the junta's forced conscription law continue to be deployed to active frontlines, where many are used as human shields.