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thing as they show lights on us and watched us drown on the go see you and it's of you whose mind wanted to improve his family situation by working in europe. that dream ended in a nightmare that he barely escaped to live. and that's it for me, and that is theme for now. frank, off with the weather is update for you at the top of the the don't go away next up . the struggle of me and most shooting ethnic minority to defend the territory. and i think that's a close up fight off to the short time gab offers in berlin from me and they have to be new seen here. i support the then we've been coined is great for investing the theme this this everyone here just wants to get into bit calling because they are known as bit queen arrows. investors from all over are moving to latin america in search of big going treasure
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. nowhere is the crypto currency value more highly than here. the queen in latin america starts august 18th on d. w. the thing of him, we're taking up a frontline position. i need 5 volunteers for the best among you. some take the m for rifles of how we're advancing slow and to make sure our mission succeeds. and let's go in lock. okay. car commander, son. tom is leading his unit to the front lines. they're fighting a war in the mountains, in plains of man,
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more out of sight from the rest of the world. so i'm going to kind of go, go, go with the current of the the 30 year old commander studied the ology before taking up arms to fight the hunter. the military has been in power in me and most since the crew and february 2021 son who tongue now leads a battalion of nearly 600 people and hopefully they can get in position in fire if you need to. so i thought that you can, utah is on this home, the home to a troop, sorry about 400 meters away from us. so the soonest i'm over over there and stuff and those building call can continue and cut into the
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e the military. so dear, don't cut the junk or see us we would be so we mystery ok. ready? the after 28 days of intense fighting, the commander in his unit managed to take this police station from the phone to here in the destroyed town of tonnes long. only 200 meters separate. the 2 armies. sometimes it comes is not clear. but if they come, we, we should, we would to them. we are ready to die. oftentimes, this is our top. this is where we go off. we would fight for democracy.
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the journalists reporting on this forgotten war to drive many hours through the mountains and foreign reporters are not welcome in man, mar. entering the country requires taking detours to avoid military check points and crossing this river. indeed i do, on this side is indeed a country at peace. and this is me on mar, a country in k o i c welcome to 2 men will come to burma and impoverished remote mountainous region on the border between india and bangladesh. can state is home to some 500010 people there,
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one of the 135 ethnic groups that were officially recognized after the country gains independence from british colonial rule. 10 people began converting to christianity in the late 19th century during the colonial era and have long been marginalized. 90 percent of man, most population is buddhist. gen state has struggled to gain greater autonomy for more than 30 years. here in the middle of the jungle, the chin have set up camp. this is the headquarters of their political and military campaign against the military regime. the . the crew on february 1st 2021, put an end to 10 years of democratic transition in man moore. the chin subsequently
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broke the nation wide ceasefire agreement and took up arms against the fund. within a few weeks, hundreds of young people answered the call to arms and joined the cna, the chin national army? no, no. sorry. the the for the cool. the cna numbers just a few 100 soldiers today, it has over 2000, mostly young people who grew up in a peaceful man mar, of the both men and women,
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the uniform to take part in what they call a revolution type office post office. personal id number when was this is the wrong id number. yeah, i seen going on on the, on the day some of the trustees. okay. well, i didn't realize what was happening. do full. i now go communications networks and television stations will cut off. i know 18 to go uh i to, i felt like my life was looking into the darkness as a census. we purchased a number of my to, we took to the streets and shouted smoking demonstrations a whole house. and, but you can send a coup with protest alone for people. if you want to defeat the hometown. you have to take up arms so that i've seen it a career like a too much, like the
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great sweet lawn t o works at the war department at camp victoria. the headquarters of the 10 national army the 25 year old, gave up her last studies to join the football. grace shares a room with another female recruit. the same age as her life in the camp isn't easy for this young city woman. there is no running water for internet and there's only electricity for a few hours a day, a and i'm yeah, how much i have not a to be honest with a what i missed my home in a change. i don't have a home anymore. single issue at the home to destroy my house. yeah. bye. so not danny took off for me. yeah, this is how to go on this or sometimes i want to stop and run away. i know. but if i'm a small group of resistance trying to escape soc anytime this week,
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there will be no more revolution. the situation will stay the same tiny bed and the people of this country will never live in peace. d, dial up to it and i know you still have to, i know one poll as i was young people who believe in democracy aren't the only ones who joined the resistance after the, to a few soldiers from the top to my dog. man, mars all powerful servers, then wage war against their own people. after 20 years and the me on more navy corporal own coco when now serves in the cna we hope to work that out and he trains new recruits and the use and maintenance of weapons probably hold on. it still needs to be oil. see the machine the cna soldiers only have these old machine guns for combat. they get them from
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other ethnic revel groups or take them off, dead soldiers who serve the man, mar, hunter. the hunter has a whole arsenal of weapons that it's not an event find. nor will you sell mazda, of all of that. when i was in the regular army, our heavy weapon, canons, and ships came from china gone. they've jo, law, fix it. then we bought smaller arms from north korea protocol. then we also had some weapons from russia to st. helena. and you know, to assuming that and then you know what to do. if the cna it could make or get better when consuming. and then i think this war would be over much sooner. then. yeah, to get to that will be all along the way, jr. but old weapons are all the cna has the soldiers here face an enemy,
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that's better armed and better trains. taking inspiration from ukrainian fighters, the chin, or modifying civilian drones to launch air strikes, their targets or the tanks and supply cons away. so man mars armed forces the in return. the hunter has targeted tons along the town. once home to 12000 people. the cna has set up a command post here. the town has seen the fiercest fighting since the civil war began the the phone to has bombed the town more than a 100 times in recent months. it's desperate to recapture this strategically
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important area. but after winning a battle at the tons long hospital, the cna now controls more than 70 percent of the town. there's a need to do to us all the time sad because i lost friends here. so the and when the angry cigna sort of thing that you could, but i don't want vengeance because i've been to me that i want to defend my country new to invite people based at night. don't look like even if some of us have to die with. i think it's crazy and it doesn't think we are willing to sacrifice our lives . i'll just have to do it to defend this place. doesn't that i'm a fight till the end of it will fight on the be between what the after more than 2 years of civil war and almost daily bombardments, comp long is now a ghost town. the but recently
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former residents have started venturing back to the liberated areas. the good news soon. his wife and their daughter are returning to their neighborhood for the 1st time to close on the the old bit that in the it has
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a long time ago vision because he is not like okay, yeah, that's good. good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, cause on soon as you can in the come in, kind of do me to, to suck content into my, you know, me could, because i've been counted on to you cuz i'm digital kind of your thumb. like no food, no food, no money, but the tools
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a phone call up. i'm ok. with the family left the town in august the 20, 21. 6 months after the cool. that's when the military to retain began attacking the area, ended civilian population 2 years later on long as still deeply scarred by the war country town. one more phone tied to low bum. uh huh. this may telling you i've got a couple. did you try to come see the black fence from caught up in control? yeah, go below the
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since the cool, more than one and a half 1000000 people in myanmar had been forced to flee their homes. they now live as refugees in their own country. on the 3rd of 10 states population has been displaced. about 100 families from tons along now live here. a 4 hour drive away. t l t indeed used to run a small grocery store and tank lines known something worked as a farmer in the field, south side of town. but there is no work in the refugee camp. the family can only get by with the help of small energy of the how many sit down. have you washed your hands and the total for the
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competition. not as from the lord and your grace is so precious. mean a need to create a darkness tough so, but you guide us by your license and we thank you god, our lord. okay. and then continue until the coming on. okay. we will need to thank you for this meal. lord, we ask for your glory and goodness in the name of christ in their meals are always the same. white rice prevented trim paste, and occasionally some cabbage leaves from the neighbors vegetable patch. of course, on the back of sir, we rarely meet on his door once or twice a year. animals are slaughtered to mark religious holidays. confound as on our children have a protein deficiency because they hardly ever eat meat. what's on the cook, april, the,
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some of the 100000 displaced chine, are playing important roles in the struggle even if they aren't finding the item for when i see you in the whole, you look well, you could, but here you look, sitting alone in that and what should i do with your doctor almost. and his wife rebecca, a nurse run the only hospital in this chain control region. so of the after taking part in anti regime demonstrations, they had to leave their jobs out of state run facility. they then took over a pharmacy funded by donations from the diaspora in the united states. that will lead me. i'm fortunate to work with my wife the. every thing is easier to as
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a couple the college as if i had to do it all by myself. i would just be stressful to depress people, but we support each other. deal got a new the feeling that if one of us as a bad to asian delta, the other step, some of that as we rely on each other, you clean out a little bit. and the doctor almost only graduated from medical school 3 weeks before the cool working here has been baptism by fire. every day he has to be a surgeon, anesthesiologist, pediatrician, and gynecologist all rolled into one. does that hurt strange a film this to see this here? that's a fetal heart. that's a baby. now, look, there's something moving to the right. that's the baby's heartbeat. well, see the movement. because i've had to learn to interpret x rays and
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ultra sounds. i taught myself by watching youtube videos. you know, so you look a little over a year ago, doctor almost and his wife became parents themselves to a baby boy checking out to, to play in the living room with a ball well done. you hit the ball in times of war, such peaceful family moments are all too often short lived to be careful tonight because it is not safe tonight. you know,
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maybe as frank. indeed, i don't know what i have no regrets about having our son. but my heart aches for him since because of the civil war to single conscience. so i can't do anything for him and feel responsible for bringing him into this chaos. based on the the, the hospital was spared that night. point of fighter plans supplied by russia shelled another village with 100 residents. the the,
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the, the time you do is i took me what i can totally say. because i'm in thought with it's a lot and to give it to me, to spend a minute with the hunted, dropped to heavy bombs on houses in this village. far from the front line, almost all the people who live here are farmers. miraculously, most of the residents survived the attack. but 2 people died. the,
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the community buried a sick 2 year old retired teacher and a 37 year old farmer. at least 6000 civilians have died since the crew and me on march. the to the the as the hunter loses the battle on the ground, it's taken to the skies. increasing air strikes, as the threat is never ending. grace and her friends. now spend nights and bunkers
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at cna headquarters at camp victoria on the what, what do you do after the revolution? by the on the when schools reopen, i'll continue my studies to do mentor that role. and after that, i'll continue to serve or cons. unfortunately, i tend to change on says she wants to get married. it isn't. hi, i'm sorry. do you have a boyfriend? tom? i'm not. yes, starting tomorrow, i'll try to find what do you want me to update? you on my before i came here, my dream just becoming a business woman. me. well, i kinda wanted to, to love and you know, don't that guess i need to see boy, but i'm not sure i have the necessary skills. alonda let i look for the, the cherry. so
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you never with the in the, the sentiment of your one of our officers to hello, this is the grave of this we lend partner and see certain past that she was 24 years old. i'm talking to she died when the camp was bombed. on january 10, 252023. to put on the 23 i gotten because she even
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here at this refuge in the jungle, a long way from the fighting of the front lines. some young seeing a recruits have lost their lives. she's on here. uh. she died on january 10th when they dropped bombs on us moment. calculate the on january 10th, 2023 camp victoria was found for the 1st time 5 rebel fighters were killed. more than 310 soldiers have died since the civil war began tv. you know, they were young and intelligent students and educated. most like studios to come
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from, they gave up everything for the cause and joined us because they oppose the military dictatorship. initially from an book you know, a little more time they believed in freedom and were willing to fight for. and i have great respect for them and pay tribute to them every day prospect. now this, i think this will affect the several 100 young people have been left injured or named the those who survive, the battles are treated at this makes shift clinic at camp victoria. my nephew, was it of mine, did you step on it? and i was trying to recover the bodies of 2 friends and you are not alone. i said you must be strong. we have to do every day. so
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within this month we have done $64.00. i'm pretty sure our civilian. so there, as there are so many people liked, the young men and women felt and next as of so i went to see if this was as soon as possible. at 19 samsung is the youngest of the injured soldiers. here he was hit during his 1st front line deployment. a mind killed several of his comrades church. i lost the leg, but i have no regrets because i lost it fighting the hunter, fighting for my country and for my people. i have no regrets. she does, and i can't return to the front zone, but i will continue the fight from here. kinda have very agreeable to put you on a small fight in this for as long as the hunter isn't pollen,
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these young resistance fighters may no longer be on the national chain armies for in the line. but they remain committed to their revolution. the would be to us that's why we listen to their stories. reporter, every weekend, d, w, d, w. so on 6 on the inside. every day the world caution. really
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world wide web feel free to come. we can take the different w, call the world and also your info is and all the input u, v w story. now on to the media is one of the world's coolest countries to so it's of it lines the hard does it. and yet over a 100000 microns passed through annually on their way to points, not the trends that has grown even more.

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