this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. our top story: peaceful protests in myanmar following last year s coup have turned into what the united nations has described as a civil war. more on myanmar now for you. as you ve seen in our report at the start of the programme, thejunta known as the tatmadaw has launched brutal attacks on civilians, which the un says could amount to war crimes. but how did the tatmadaw, which ruled myanmar for 18 years, become so powerful? 0ur reporter nick marsh has the background. it s said that most countries have an army but some armies have a country. and myanmar s tatmadaw has been the defining force in the country s
but the constant fighting, month after month, is uprooting whole communities in myanmar. these families have fled for safety to the river that marks the border with thailand. the united nations is warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe. to fight or flee the stark choices still confronting those who oppose the coup, and yet huge numbers still determined not to let the military crush their democratic hopes, leaving myanmar trapped in a brutal stalemate in which there is no clear way out. jonathan head, bbc news, on the thai myanmar border. more on myanmar now for you. as you ve seen injonathan s report, thejunta known as the tatmadaw has launched brutal attacks on civilians, which the un says could amount to war crimes. but how did the tatmadaw, which ruled myanmarfor 18 years, become so powerful? 0ur reporter nick marsh
Alrededor de 1.500 soldados han abandonado el Ejército de Birmania tras el golpe de Estado del 1 de febrero y se han unido a las tropas creadas por la oposición política para combatir a la junta militar, según revela un capitán que desertó. El capitán Lin Htet Aung, quien abandonó en abril las filas militares para.