Reuters
After seeing how Myanmar’s military used deadly force to crack down on peaceful protests against the Feb. 1 coup that ousted the country’s democratically elected government, a young man from the country’s central Bago region answered a call for volunteers to join a newly forming local militia. He went into the Bago Yoma mountain range with other like-minded citizens, many of whom were youth like himself, and began training for armed combat.
RFA Myanmar Service reporter Aye Aye Mon conducted a telephone interview with the young man, who identified himself as Yoma Tiger. He said that he and others in the Bago People’s Defense Army have had enough of the military dictatorship and are waiting for the right moment to fight back.