'I need to be prepared': The young people fighting Myanmar’s military government.
“This violence will cross international borders and it will cause damage to our neighbors,” Sasa, spokesman and minister of international cooperation for the National Unity Government, said on a Zoom call from an undisclosed location. “We need help from our neighbors, including India, Thailand and China. We all should come together to end the junta’s reign of terror.”against the military.
Smoke rises in Thantlang, Chin state, on Oct. 29 after what local media said was shelling by the Myanmar military.On March 4, 2021, just over a month after the coup, ValLal Sui and his fellow police officers were facing off against hundreds of protesters in Falam, a border town in Chin state.He refused and instead joined the civil disobedience movement, a nonviolent form of resistance to military rule that includes strikes and boycotts.
“It is hard to find any work here,” he said, pulling out a hand-rolled cigarette as he sat on a mattress on the floor at a relief camp, where he shares a room with more than a dozen people. “It is not our country, and we know it, but the helplessness adds to the loneliness.”But he doesn’t have many other options. A colleague who ran away with him returned to Myanmar late last year out of desperation; Sui said he heard from friends and locals that he had been caught by the military.
The National Unity Government has received some international support, and the People’s Defense Force is claiming significant victories in guerilla warfare. But they face steep odds.
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