By DAVID PIERSON | Los Angeles Times | Published: April 9, 2021 YANGON, Myanmar (Tribune News Service) The 26-year-old student has never touched a gun, but she is heading into the jungles to enlist with rebels seeking to overthrow the military junta in a nation tumbling toward civil war. The student, who lives in Yangon, Myanmar s largest city, will soon embark on a treacherous journey snaking past military checkpoints close to the border with Thailand. Her hope of studying in Europe has been set aside so she can train in guerrilla warfare alongside ethnic insurgents, including her fellow majority Buddhist Bamars, who are determined to resist Myanmar s military junta, which seized power in a February coup.
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