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A front line position. I need 5 volunteers. The best among you to take the m for rifles in the house were advancing slow and to make sure our mission succeeds. And lets go in and we dont lock. Okay. Car commander son. Tom is leading his unit to the front lines. Theyre fighting a war in the mountains, in plains of man, more out of sight from the rest of the world. So im 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 man, most since the crew and february 2021 son who tongue now leads a battalion of nearly 600 people get in position and fired if you need to. So thats, and coddington utah is on the, on the home to a troop. Sorry about 400 meters away from us. So the soonest on over there can those building call can continue and cut into the e the military. So dear, dont cut the junk or see us we would be we mystery. Okay. Youre ready . Ok. 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 subdomain, which comes, is not clear. But if they come, we, we should, we would to them, we are ready to die. For some time. 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. The country at peace, and this is me and more of 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 100010 people. There one of the 135. 00 ethnic groups that were officially recognized after the country gained 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 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 agreements 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. Most of the young people who grew up in a peaceful man mar both men and women on the uniform to take part in what they call a revolution type of stuff. Its a personal id number and when was the bad is the wrong id number . Yeah. On the, on the day some of the trustees. Okay. Well i didnt realize what was happening through the phone. I have go Communications Networks and television stations will cut off, you know, 18 to go. Uh, i to, i felt like my life was looking into the darkness and i said, the soonest we purchased a number of laptop. We took to the streets and shouted smoking demonstration and thankful hastily. But you con 10 to 2 with protest alone for people. If you want to defeat the hometown, you have to take up arms so that ive seen the decree. Oh, thats a too much like the grease. We launch the 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. For both grace shares a room with another female recruit. The same age as her life in the camp isnt easy for this young city woman. Theres no Running Water for internet and theres only electricity for a few hours a day. And im yeah, im actually not a, to be honest a what i missed my home in a change. I dont have a home anymore. Single me show the home to destroy my house. Yeah. Bye. So not danny took off on. Yeah, this is how to meantime give them answer. Sometimes i want to stop and run away. I know. But if im a small group of resistance trying to escape soc anytime this week, 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 die. I walk to it and i know you still have to, i know one poll as i was young people who believe in democracy arent 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 there part of the church and 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, mar, hunter. The hunter has a whole arsenal of weapons that its not an event find normal law. You sell mazda, of all the other 2, when i was in the regular army, our heavy weapon, canons, and ships, came from china, gone, a viewing law suit. So we bought smaller arms from north korea protocol, then we also had some weapons from russia to st. Helena. I know you said 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. The line. Yeah. To get to that will be all the way jr. Of the but old weapons are all the cna has the soldiers here face an enemy, thats better armed and better trains. Taking inspiration from ukrainian fighters, the chin, or modifying civilian drones to launch air strikes, their targets or the tank since supply cons away. So man mars armed forces the in return, the one that 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. Its 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. Theres a need to do to us all the time sad because i lost friends here. So the and when the angry sickness order figure to kind of but i dont want vengeance because ive been to me that i want to defend my country new to invite people base it. And i dont know, like, even if some of us have to die with, i think its crazy and it doesnt vision we are willing to sacrifice our lives. Ill just have to do it 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 good news soon. His wife and their daughter are returning to their neighborhood for the 1st time. Close on him in the house. They dont then go visit the car. He is not the good. Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. Cause on this you can in the of the come in kind to me to, to suck content into my young cook and ive been counted on to you cuz im digital kind of your thumb like no food, no food, no money, but the tools, a phone call up okay. And the family left the town in august of 20216 months after the to. Thats when the military to retain began attacking the area ended civilian population 2 years later, tons along is still deeply scarred by the war. Country town also try to no one uncomfortable. Right . Telling how do you try to come to continue in the black fence from caught up in control . Yeah. Kind of below the sense because 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 is about 100 families sometimes long. 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 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 Company Called sit down. Have you washed your hands and the total for the competition. Now assume the lord and your grace is so precious. Mean a need to create a darkness up the but you guide us by your license. Nothing. No. We thank you god, our lord. Okay, so 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 quart, on the back of sir, we rarely meet on his door 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. Whats on the cook, april the some of the 100000 displaced chin for playing important roles in the struggle. Even if they arent 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. Im fortunate to work with my wife. 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 equipment and event, lulu, i would know 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 film is going to see this here. Thats a fetal heart. Thats a baby. Now just look, theres something moving to the right. Thats the babys heartbeat. See the movement. Because ive had to learn to interpret x rays and ultra sounds. I taught myself by watching youtube videos. You. Yeah. So you look a little over a year ago, doctor almost and his wife became parents themselves to a baby boy taken out to tony and will play in the living room with a bull. 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 dont 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 cant 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 me to i took me what i can totally say because im in thought with its a lot and to give it to me to spend a minute with 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, 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 in myanmar the, to the has the one to lose as the battle on the ground. Its 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 the what, what do you do after the revolution . While the on the when schools reopen, ill continue my studies to do method arrow. And after that, ill continue to serve or cons. Unfortunately, tend to change on says she wants to get married to the higher. Do you have a boyfriend . Im not, yes, starting tomorrow, ill try to find what i doing later on that they show one of my before i came here, my dream just becoming a business woman, the black and white actors who love and you know, dont that guess i knew that she played with im not sure i have the necessary skills, not done that. I look for the, the cherry. So 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. She died when the camp was bombed. On january 10, 252023 to put on the 23 at a cost and gotten a cushy the even here at this refuge in the jungle. A long way from the finding of the front line. Some young seeing a recruits have lost their lives. Hes 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 younger and intelligent students and educated me see mostly studios because they gave up everything for the cause and joined us because they oppose the military dictatorship. Initially from an book, you know, the last time they believed in freedom and were willing to fight for the tech to go. I have Great Respect for them and pay tribute to them every day prospects. Now this, i think this will affect the several 100 young people have been left injured or named the those who survived the battles are treated at this make 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 position, our civilian. So there, as there are so many people like the young men and women without mex 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 mine 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 cant return to the front zone, but i will continue the fight from here. Kinda have a wonderful feature on us and ill find in this for as long as the hunter isnt pollen the 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 pulse, the beginning of a story that takes us along for the ride. Its about the perspectives culture information. This is the, the news w. Mines pretty clear through their own actions. Their ultimate goal is to wipe out an entire city. Doing these to reset the week or the week of this in china and the oppressed minority. The International Community has no right to stay silent because silence is always the torture is a couple of spiritual yeah, weve got some hot tips for your bucket list. The magic corner check hot spot for food and some great culture on the board has to vote w travel off we go the. This is dw news, and these are our top stories. 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