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
i m karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines. the initial findings of the report into parties at downing street during the covid lockdown have been published outlining failures of leadership and judgment. the report says some of the behaviour was hard to justify and effectively let the british public down. the conflict in myanmar is becoming increasingly violent and widespread, so much so that one year after the coup that took aung san suu kyi from power, it is now considered a civil war. battles between the military and organised groups of armed civilians are not only becoming more deadly, but also more widespread, according to data analysed by the bbc.
hidden from the outside world. rebecca henschke, bbc news. our correspondent, jonathan head, joins us from the border between thailand and myanmar. looking at the pictures there of the people s defence force and the ranks of armed resistance they have now, it says a lot about the scale of what they ve achieved for people to be talking about, actually, a civil war? i people to be talking about, actually, a civil war? actually, a civilwar? ithink that is what actually, a civilwar? ithink that is what has actually, a civilwar? ithink that is what has happened l that is what has happened simply because people feel they had no choice. you heard the comment in rebecca s report, fighters saying, you know, we re not getting any international support. the start of this protest movement, there lots of optimism that the sheer size of the protests and the belief they would be international support because it was a popularly elected
worry stopping the sellers is a complex challenge. caroline davies, bbc news. details of a series of brutal mass killings of civilians by the military in myanmar have been uncovered by the bbc. the united nations says the military s actions point to crimes against humanity. it s thought the killings were a collective punishment for attacks by militia groups in the region demanding a return to democracy following a coup in february. earlier this year, four villages in kenee township in central myanmar were targeted over a period of a few weeks injuly. this report by rebecca henschke contains some distressing images and details from the very beginning. shouting dog barks, child screams this girl is grieving over her grandfather s body. it s distressing to see. there are clear signs of torture. when the myanmar military
of february points to crimes against humanity. a bbc investigation has revealed the details of a series of mass killings of civilians by the myanmar military. four villages in kani township in central myanmar were targeted over a period of weeks injuly. this report by rebecca henschke contains some distressing images from the start. this girl is grieving over her grandfather s body. it s distressing to see. there are clear signs of torture. when the myanmar military entered their village in the kani township, she fled. her grandfather stayed,