the the door and 6 o'clock don't take mommy to my son, your mommy's not coming back. over february 2020 russian troops invaded the ukrainian city of the computer. it was recaptured. 6 months later the occupation was hard. how can life go on after all the terror? not everyone can endure the fear we felt every day. when russia comes starts august 25th on d w. the

thing were taking up a front line position. i need 5 volunteers the best among you. some take the am for rifles of how we're advancing slow. we have to make sure our mission succeeds. i'm on. let's go in and we don't lock car commander son. 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 more 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. so i 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 i'm over there and those building call can continue and cut until the 8th, the military. so dear, don't cut the junk or see us we would be so we knew story. ok. ready. ok. the

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 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 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 country in k o. c. welcome to 2 men. welcome to vermont and impoverished remote mountain. this 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, most population is buddhist. gin 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 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. 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 the phone line. the 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 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 it a career without a too much lot. the grace, 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. will 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. so there is no running water for internet and there's only electricity for a few hours

a day. and i have not a, to be honest, a what i missed my home, the change i don't have a home anymore, single issue at the home to destroy my house. yeah, bye so not daniel took off on. yeah, this is how to man, thank you. i'm gonna say sometimes i want to stop and run away for different a small group of resistance trying to escape softly anytime this week that 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 it's of weapons valley 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 rebel 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 normal law, you sell mazda, of all the other 2, when i was in the regular army, d r heavy weapon. canons and ships came from china, gone a, be a law suit that we bought smaller arms from north korea protocol. we also had some weapons from russia to st. helena. i know you said 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 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 cons away, so man more is armed forces the in return, the one to has targeted ton long a town one's home to 12000 people. as 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 any to tell us a little. i'm sad because i lost friends here. so the and when the angry sickness or the signature card, but i don't want vengeance because i've been to me to buy wants to defend my country. no, to invite people base it. and i don't know, like, even if some of us have to die with, i think it's crazy and it doesn't. this, we are willing to sacrifice our lives up to that,

to defend this place. a dozen at about 5 till 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 this, the news

. so his wife and their daughter are returning to their neighborhood for the 1st time, cause on him in the have a long time ago vision because he is 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 my any kind to me to, to suck content into my young cook because i've been counted on to you close on the

digital kind of your thumb like no food, no food, no money, but the tools a phone call up. no, i'm ok. with the family left. the town in august, the 20216 months after the cool. and that's when the military to retain began attacking the area ended civilian population 2 years later, tons long as still deeply scarred by the war. guntee also try to low bottom cap capital. do 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 we have here a 4 hour drive away t l 10 dean used to run a small grocery store in tons loans. knowing 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, but small energy of the how many total the

competition now? okay, assume the lord and your grace is so precious me a need to create a darkness puff the but you guide us by your life as a no go. we thank you god, our lord. okay. and then can people into 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 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, some of the 100000 displaced chine, are 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. 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. not or leave me. i am fortunate to work with my wife. 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 heard strange news film is to see this here. that's a fetal heart. that's a baby. now just look, there's something moving to the right. that's the baby's heartbeat. see the

movement. because i've had to learn to interpret x rays ultrasound. i taught myself by watching youtube videos. you 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 bone 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 because of the civil war to single conscience. and 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 residence the

the the, the time me to. i took me while i can sort of use it because i'm in thought, who gets a lot and to give it to me to up into the hunt, it 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

. 6 the community buried a sick 3 year old retired teacher and a 37 year old farm or at least $6000.00 civilians have died since the crew in myanmar the to the the has the hunter loses the battle on the ground. it's taken to the skies, increasing air strikes, or the threat is never ending. grace and her friends. now spend nights and bunkers

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 method arrow. and after that, i'll continue to serve our cons. unfortunately, we tend to change on says she wants to get married today. hi, i'm sorry. do you have a boyfriend? tom? i'm not, yes, starting tomorrow, i'll try to find what i'm doing later on that the issue i wanna i'm i it before i came here, my dream just becoming a business woman, the black and white active who love and orthodontic gas, i need to she play with 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, [000:00:00;00] the, the sentiment of your, one of our officers to hello, this is the grave of this we land part. and so you should in fact

taken that she was 24 years old. i'm talking to she died when the camp was bombed. on january 10th, 2023 to put the 23 cotton. because she even here at this refuge in the jungle, a long way from the finding of the front lines. some young cna recruits have lost their lines. 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, reval. fighters were killed more than 300. 10 soldiers have died since the civil war began serious. they don't, you know,

they were young and intelligent student and educated woochie, most like studios will cause they gave up everything for the cause and joined us because they opposed the military dictatorship initially from an booking the last 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 thing, this was the several 100 young people have been left injured or named the . those who survived 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 are not alone. i said you must be strong. we have to do every day. so 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 without and next. and 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 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

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