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thing were taking up a front line position. i need 5 volunteers. the best among you. some take the m for rifles of how we're advancing slow. we have to make sure our mission succeeds. and let's go in. and we don't lock commander some time is leading his unit to the front lines. they're fighting a war in the mountains, in plains of man, 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 song will tongue now leads a battalion of nearly 600 people get in position in fire if you need to sort of have coddington, utah is on the home phone 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 e the military. so dear. don't cut the junk or see us.

we would be we knew story. ok, righty. 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 tons alone. 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 today for 1010. this is our top. this is where we go off. we would fight for democracy. the

journalists reporting on this forgotten war path 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 indian country at peace. and this is mia and mar a country in k o n i. c. welcome to welcome to vermont and impoverished remote mountainous region on the border between india and bangladesh. can state is home to some 5 100000 sion people. they're one of the $135.00 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 more as 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 setup 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 broke the nation wide ceasefire agreement and took up arms against the hunter. 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, the uniform to take part in what they call a revolution type office stuff is

a personal id number, when was this is the wrong id number? yeah. on the, on the day some of the trustees. okay. well, i didn't realize what was happening through phone line. erica communications networks and television stations were cut off, you know, 18 lots to i felt like my life was looking into the darkness as a census we purchased in the market. we took to the streets and shouted smoking demonstration, and thankful hoss and but you content a queue with protest alone. what people if you want to defeat the hometown, you have to take up arms so that i've seen the decree. oh, that's a too much like the grease sweet lawn. t a 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 resistance. both 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's no running water for internet and there's only electricity for a few hours a day. and i'm yeah, how much i have not a to be honest with a what i missed my home, the auditors, i don't have a home anymore. single issue at the home to destroy my house. yeah. bye. so not danny. took off on. yeah, this is how to maintain your message. sometimes i want to stop and run away. i know for different small groups of resistance trying to escape some anytime this week. there will be no more revolution. the situation will stay the same day,

even the people of this country will never live in peace and a 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 army also enlisted their part of the chin ethnic minority and would rather be disorders than 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 helped you with that on the trains new recruits and the use and maintenance of weapons valley. 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

other ethnic rebel groups or take them off. dead soldiers who serve the man mark on to. the hunter has a whole arsenal of weapons that it's not an event find normal for you so much at all. now that when i was in the regular army, our heavy weapon, cannons, and ships came from china gone navy, a law suit. we bought smaller arms from north korea protocol. then that is, and we, we also had some weapons from russia. so generally, i don't intend 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 on the line. yeah. to get to the bottom you all the way junior but old weapons are all the cna has. the soldiers here face an enemy,

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 con, voice of man, mars armed forces the of the in return, the one that has targeted ton long a town one's 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 hunter has bombed the town more than a 100 times in recent months. it's desperate to recapture this strategically

important area. but after winning a battle at the 10th long hospital, the cna now controls more than 70 percent of the town. there's a need to do this little. i'm sad because i lost friends here. so the, and when the, i'm angry cigna sort of figure to kind of, but i don't want vengeance because i've been to me that i want to defend my country, nor do i invite people based. and i don't know, like, even if some of us have to die, i think it's crazy and it doesn't think we are willing to sacrifice our lives up to that to defend this place on the site until the engine started. will fight on the symbol the after more than 2 years of civil war and almost daily bombardments, comp long is now a ghost town. the but recently

former residents have started venturing back to the liberated airings. the good news. so his wife and their daughter are returning to their neighborhood for the 1st time. cause on him in the house. they don't,

don't go visit the car here and not like, okay, if you don't, that's a good. good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. cause on soon as you can in the of the come in kind a, me to, to suck content into among young cook. and i've been counted on to you cause one digit account of your thumb, like no food, no food in my pocket to come to

a phone call. okay. and the family left the town in august the 20, 216 months after the coup. that's when the military regime began attacking the area, ended civilian population 2 years later on to long and still deeply scarred by the war country to remote from top to bottom. the cap. oh, may telling how good do you try to come to see the black fence from caught up in control? yeah. go below of the sense because more than one and

a half 1000000 people in myanmar had been forced simply 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 tons long known something worked as a farmer and the pos outside the 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 called sit down. have you washed your hands and the total for the

competition. now assume the lord and your grace is so precious me a need to create a darkness of the but you guide us by your license and we thank you god, our lord. okay, to then continue until the coming on. okay, we will indeed just 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 who to go once or twice a year, animals or slaughter to mark religious holidays and follows on our children have a protein deficiency because they hardly ever eat meat. what's on the cook, april the

some of the 100000 displaced chin for playing important roles in the struggle. even if they aren't finding the item for when i send you and 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 controlled region 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. not or leave me. i am fortunate to work with my wife. the every thing is easier as

a couple to how to adjust. 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 steps 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 is going to see this here. that's a, 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 uh,

i've had to learn to interpret x rays and 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,

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 or 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,

the, me to, i took me what i can totally say, because i'm in thought who with it's a lot and to give it to me to up into the middle with the hunt that 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,

[000:00:00;00] the, the community buried a 60 year old retired teacher, and a 37 year old farmer. the at least $6000.00 civilians have died since the crew and me on march. the to 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

at cna headquarters at camp victoria on 50. what, what do you do after the revolution? by the on the when schools reopen, i'll continue my studies to do you mentor barrel. and after that, i'll continue to serve or cons. oh, of course that you tend to change on says she wants to get married and say hi, i'm sorry. do you have a boyfriend? tom? i'm not, yes, starting tomorrow trying to find what do you want either on type ation or one of my before i came here, my dream just becoming a business woman, he loved can a lot after to love and you know, don't that guess i need to see play with i'm not sure i have the necessary skills. amanda. let i look for the the cherry. so you never with

the the the symptoms. okay. one of our officers knew she, this is the grave of this we lend partner and see should and that she was 24 years old talking. she died when the camp was bombed. on january 10th, new size,

2023. to put on the 23 at the top and gotten the cuz she even here at this refuge in the jungle, a long way from the fighting in the front line. some young cna recruits have lost their lives. she's on hit uh, she died on january 10th when they dropped bombs on us moment. calculate with the on january 10th, 2023 cam pictorial, was bombed for the 1st time 5, reval fighters were killed, more than 3 technician from zillow, and 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 think this

will news several 100 young people have been left injured or named i was trying to recover the bodies of 2 friends and you are not alone such as like the yellow flynn there. we met with our next ad. uh um. so i went to see if this were 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 mine killed several of his comrades shirts. 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

a good will feature on us and i'll fight in this for as long as the hunter isn't pollen, these young resistance fighters may no longer be on the national chain. armies front line, but they remain committed to their revolution, the shifting outdoor don't take a moment. under your mom, he's not coming back. it's over. february 22,

the russian troops invaded the ukrainian city of compliance. it was recaptured. 6 months later, the occupation this hard drive, under russian occupation resisted the boot collaborated. how can life go on after all the terror? not everyone can endure the fear, weeks out every day. when we start to august 25th on dw, the media is one of the world's corps to countries too. so it's a good lines to holler. does it get over a $100000.00 microns passed through annually on the way to points? not the trends that has grown even more difficult now,

but that has less to do with the recent military reports and more to do with louis