resistance does seem to be growing. from your experience how widespread is that resistance now in myanmar? it is remarkably widespread. it is also remarkably persistent. a lot of these volunteer fighters data with just a few scrappy home—made guns. many of them was city—folk, as you heard from that report, and i spoke to many others who left the city, comfortablejobs, they city, comfortable jobs, they may city, comfortablejobs, they may have been low—grade jobs city, comfortablejobs, they may have been low—gradejobs in cafes or they may have been involved in business, and had to learn to be fighters. and it has been pretty rough. if you look at the hills behind me, over the past month there have been ellie carpenter gunships going up and down there, sleeping positions, there are a lot of volunteer pdf members who have come here. this is one of the closest members they can come to, notionally liberated, close to young—gwon. the people who have been fighting you have found it very rough indeed. it has been a tough learning process for them and a lot of people have been killed in these encounters. yet you don't get a sense that people are giving up yet. there really is