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reading of him. we're taking up a front line position. i need 5 volunteers. the best among you to take the m for rifles of how we're advancing slow. we have 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, more out of sight from the rest of the world. so i'm going to 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 more since the crew and february 2021 song will tongue
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now leads a battalion of nearly 600 people and hopefully they can get in position in fire if you need to. so that's a thought that you can, utah is on the this home, the home to a true, sorry about 400 meters away from us. so the soonest on over their stuff. and those building call can continue and cut into the e, the military. so dear, don't cut the jump to see us. we would be we knew story. ok. ready? the
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after 28 days of intense fighting, the commander in his units 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 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 to drive many hours through the mountains and foreign reporters are not welcome in man,
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mar. entering the country requires taking detours to avoid military check points and crossing this river. india like do on this side is indian the country at peace, and this is mia and mar a country in k o n i. c. 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 gained independence from british colonial rule. 10 people became 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. gin state has
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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 more. the chin subsequently 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. for the
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for the cool. the cna numbers 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. do full, i had communications networks and television stations were cut off. i know 18 lots
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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 demonstration and thankful. hi say. but you can't then to, to, 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 lot. the great 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
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for this young city woman. so there is no running water for internet and there is only electricity for a few hours a day. and i have not uh, to be honest with a what i missed my home, the change i do have a home anymore. single issue at the home to destroyed my house. yeah. buy so not danny took off on. yeah, this is how to man time go. i'm gonna say 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 tiny that the people of this country will never live in peace die. i walk to it and i know you. so i have to, i know i'm pulling as i was young people who believe in democracy aren't the only ones who joined the resistance. after the cool a few soldiers from the top of my dog, man, mars, all powerful army also enlisted their part of the chin ethnic minority and would
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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 hope to work that out in the trains, new recruits and the use and maintenance of weapons probably hold on. it still needs to be oil. see the machines the cna soldiers only have these old machine guns for combat. they get them from other ethnic revel groups or take them off, dead soldiers who served the man mar hunter. the hunter has the whole arsenal of weapons. it's not an event find. nor will you sell mazda of all the other 2, when i was in the regular army, our heavy weapon, canons, and ships,
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came from china gone. they've, you'll, uh, fix it. then we bought smaller arms from north korea protocol. we also had some weapons from russia to st. helena. i know to assuming that the unit a lot to do, if the cna it could make or get better when consuming and then i think this war would be over much sooner. the line. yeah. to get to that will be all the owner but old weapons are all the cna has the soldiers here facing the 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 cons away. so man more is armed forces the of
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the in return, the hunter has targeted ton long a 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 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 tons long hospital, the cna now controls more than 70 percent of the town. there's a need to do, does a little. i'm sad because i lost friends here. so the and when the
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angry sickness order say that you could, but i don't want vengeance because i've been to middle by wants to defend my country, nor do i invite people. be sitting. 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 . i was elected to, to defend this place, a dozen dynamo fight 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 areas. the
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good news. so his wife and their daughter are returning to their neighborhood for the 1st time. cause on here in the the they don't down, go visit the coffee and not the good. good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good,
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good, good. that's the cause on things you can in the of the money calling to me to, to supplement into my young cook because i've been counted on deer clothes on the digital come okay. and the family left the town in august 20216 months after the cool. that's when the military retain began attacking the area ended civilian population 2 years later on long as still deeply scarred by the war country town. remote from top to bottom. couple may poland
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got tough for did you try to come to see the black fence from caught up in control? yeah. below the 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 tons along known something worked as
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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 printer are called to sit down. have you wash your hands and the total competition? no, it's not. as from the lord and your grace is so precious when you create a darkness, but you guide us by your life and we thank you god, our lord. okay, to 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, fermented trim, paste,
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and occasionally some cabbage leaves from the neighbors vegetable patch. of course on court, on the back of sir, we rarely meet go once or twice a year. animals are slaughtered to mark religious holidays and follows on our children have a protein deficiency because they hardly ever eat meat. what then they can eat on 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,
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a nurse run the only hospital in this chain controlled region. so the, so after taking part in anti regime demonstrations, they had to leave their jobs at a 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 to do the every thing is easier as 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 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,
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and gynecologist all rolled into one. does that hurt? finally, strange. the film is going to see this here, that's a fetal heart. that's a baby. now it just 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 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
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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 the issue that i have no regrets about having our son. but my heart aches for him because of the civil war to single golf chit to. and i can't do anything for him and feel responsible for bringing him into this chaos. based on the the,
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the hospital was spared that night. point of fighter plans supplied by russia shelled another village with 100 residence the the the, the time me to. i took me what i can tell them because i'm in thought, who with it's a lot and to give it to me to up in to put them in the hunt, it dropped to heavy bombs on houses in this village. far from the front line. almost
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all the people who live here are farmers miraculously, most of the residents survived the attack but 2 people died. the . 6 the community buried a sick 3 year old retired teacher and a 37 year old farmer. at least 6000 civilians have died since the crew in myanmar the
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to the has the one to lose as 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 in bunkers at cna headquarters at camp victoria. what will you do after the revolution by the, on the when schools reopen, i'll continue my studies to do you method arrow. and after that, i'll continue to serve or cons. unfortunately, you tend to change on says she wants to get married. do you have a boyfriend? not? yes, starting tomorrow, i'll try to find what i'm doing later on sat the issue. i wanna i'm i it
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before i came here, my dream, just becoming a business woman. me. well, i can a lot after to love and orthodontic gas, i need to supply, which i'm not sure i have the necessary skills alonda. let's look for the the cherry. so you never with the the, the, the
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sentiment of your, one of our officers knew she, this is the grave of this whelan part. and so you shouldn't taken that she was 24 years old. it's happening. she died when the camp was bombed on january 10th, and the size 2023. to put on the 23 at the top, and gotten the pushy the even here at this refuge in the jungle. a long way from the finding of the front line. some young cna recruits have lost their lives. she's on it. uh. she died on january 10th when they dropped bombs on us moment. and kathy, with the on january 10th,
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2023 cam pictorial, was bombed. for the 1st time 5 reval fighters were killed. more than 310 soldiers have died since the civil war began tv. you know, they were young, intelligent students and educated mostly students because they gave up everything for the cause and joined us because they oppose the military dictatorship initially . and good luck. and they believed in freedom and were willing to fight for and i have great respect for them and paid tribute to them every day prospects. huh. this, i think this was the best news. several 100 young people have been left injured or named the
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those who survive. the battles are treated that 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're not alone. you must be strong. we have to do every day. so within this month we have done 6 petition our civilian. so there are, there are so many people liked the young men and women without and mix as i'm so i want to see if this war 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
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short, 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'll continue the flight from here. kinda have a good, we'll put you on us and i'll fight in this war. as long as the hunter is in pollen, these young resistance fighters may no longer be on the national chain armies frontline, but they remain committed to their revolution the, [000:00:00;00]
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the eco. indeed, they call themselves human human media and they're growing in numbers. the environment to this. so cleaning up the rubbish nash behind by millions of tourists in the mountains is one of the downsides of the tourism poses a threat to the livelihoods of many people in the region in 30 minutes on the w.
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