Myanmar conflict: Insurgent groups and the military junta battle for control | DW News 

Israel and Ukraine are way more important to be completely honest with you

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@@draculastraphouse7863please explain why

​@@draculastraphouse7863 why?

​@@draculastraphouse7863🤮🤮

Sad to hear that. Hope they are alright. The resistance forces will win this, try to contact your government and tell them to support Myanmar.

PUBG is just a place to practice they are playing the real PUBG now

Man, I'm from Myanmar and i guarantee that many pubg players are playing in real life now

This is the most random comment about Myanmar that hits close to the heart.

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@@user-is1ck5uk8f I work with a NGO that has helped some Karen people to settle here in Finland. They seem lovely people, but I've met them only once though.

Thai military government was trash af. The current government isnt much better but at least it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully, one day Move Forward will get their chance in the government, unless the conservatives try to ban them again...

thailand is plagued by its military as myanmar is plagued by its military. a military is only for defense, ideally a government runs the country.

demoncrazy freedom - so old so boring so tired - look at usa

@@bobevans9996 "so old so boring so tired" prob u projecting more than anything m8

@@bobevans9996 yes democracy lasts totally agree, authoritarian states eventually fail

where do you think rebels got their weapon?

Facts

Chill, “rebels” is not a bad word. You can say the PDF are heroic rebels restoring the legitimate government and there’d be no problem with that.

Dumb , do you even know meaning of rebels 😂

Rebels for sure. They don't know their election was rig by the westerners.

"people defense force" sounds to communist

first they have to kick out cia

It's because years of military junta's brainwashing education that made them think "rebel" is a bad word. I keep reminding my fellow Burmese with Star Wars examples.

it's like that since british mess up asia - old news

This is happenning now Mr. Evans.

There is no govt . It's a fight between Military which overthrown the govt. Of take control VS the minority group who are upset about it .

Likely not since the name Burma excludes to a great extend the minorities that are non Burmese

@@JaaoeztBakker-xd9vd The old name represents the old time when minorities region were given self-rule and rights. So it is highly possible that they will change the name back to Burma. "Union of Myanmar" on 18 June 1989 started the looting of minorities land and wealth. It is important to note that the minority wanted to be left alone. They won't see changing of name to include them in positive light.

A vast majority of people call it Myanmar.

@@cck4863 Doubt that, the Karen and other ethnic do not have the same mother tongue and blood as the Burmans.

What a puppet state for USA to encounter China 🤮

By democracy you mean a US puppet in power, right?

because the NUG has scored some massive, crucial victories in the last few weeks - not huge battlefield ones, though they have won numerous battles - but in the fact that the people in the tatmadaw's home territory (urban areas) are abandoning them, their own forces are running, refusing to fight, surrendering, even joining the rebels. even the elderly generations have turned against the tatmadaw, which was an organisation VENERATED for generations by the burmese for its contributions to a 'liberated' myanmar.

Good - at least someone is bringing international coverage to a war that pretty much nobody outside SEAsia is paying attention to.

RSS/BJP doesn’t support Democracy they believe in one race one country uniform civil code .

You very right sir! This why we vote always for PM Modi ji and BJP! In bharat everyone equal! Except the peacefools and dalits they don't count.

India democracy on verge of dead.think about our own country first

@@ben2856 hasnt done them any good.... still one of the poorest countries in the World even after 80 years of them running it

Now India is scared of PDF because they're fighting for democracy

demoncrazy freedom don't even work in usa🤣

Where is the US 😂😂

​@@PeterLamin-pi6rvIt's China's playground, not US.

@@PeterLamin-pi6rv Outside.

​@@EinnstadtenUS fine with anything happened to myanmar, as long as they not give china a way to outflow into indian sea

The US is fine 👍🏾

they will have to form a unified, elected government exactly because this sort of thing will happen if they don't. the NUG's main goal is to achieve that election, and to ensure representation of myanmar's many ethnicities (which are operating their own militias, largely). the explicit purpose of the NUG (and why the NUG is so unified) is dethroning the tatmadaw to hold that election. it's the diversity of these groups that unifies them, because they ALL need to share in this objective to achieve their own desires for their peoples. there will be dissenting factions and a few will perhaps choose violence, but it is unlikely to create a worse crisis or a more violent situation than the one the tatmadaw has created by murdering thousands of civilians in broad daylight.

nothing fishy about it, honestly. their soldiers are increasingly refusing to fight, or simply running. the tatmadaw has a huge airpower advantage too, but it turns out it's actually very hard to bomb rebels in the jungle, and it also turns out that revenge bombing their villages and families into ashes creates a lot more rebels. the tatmadaw have been unable, repeatedly, to draw rebel fighters into battles that favour the tatmadaw's raw strength, and they have found out the hard way how little loyalty the tatmadaw actually generates in its conscripted soldiers. the NUG has steadily taken territory by working inwards towards the large urban areas, forcing unmotivated tatmadaw units to either fight against highly motivated and organised rebel guerilla attacks, or to withdraw to more 'defensible' territory - they have been losing this war almost the whole time, inch by inch.

They were taught a hard lesson (in 1989).

China is supporting the rebels. Unlike the west who just talks

Southeast Asia, blood. It borders Thailand.

No one, its all the of the resistance effort Asean didnt want to intervene (as usual) but they did disinvinted myanmar until they resolved their issue, US is uninterested, India is also uninterested, china only wants the fighting away from its border

@AnimaRandom and just like North Korea, China will prop up the regime unless it deems it can work with the rebels.

What do you expect UN to do?

@@absentmindedshirokuma8539 send a mission to monitor inside the country like they always do.

@@arumforyou they have done that multiple times.

Being borderline useless as usual.

@@Oblivisci........ That’s their Mission for sure.

they already are turning against the generals - many tatmadaw units have refused to fight, surrendered, simply run away or even joined the rebellion. they are mostly conscripts with little motivation to murder their own people for the tatmadaw, and the cruelty of the tatmadaw combined with their military failures has broken their spirits. there may eventually be a coup within the tatmadaw, but that will likely be some midranking commander realising he's gotta get ahead of the war crimes trials. it's quite possible that the NUG will simply win the war before that actually happens, lmao.

That's just how politics work for like forever

Freedom Fighters = Rebels Military Junta not Communists Regime

​@@Siviks309yup yup

Bangladesh should take back it's Rohingyas living illegally in India.

@pritsingh9766 push them to Myanmar, aren't you a superpower? Or do you just say superpower by mouth only?

@@amibangladesh7512 The superpowers Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia should give them refuge.

@@pritsingh9766 most informed BJP voter

Your comment answers itself. 😂 Even if it's a tyrannical government, it's still the de jure government.

There is little to no outsiders interest involved here. That's why. Burma has been isolationist for half century at this point.

rebel is a neutral term - they ARE rebels, rebelling against a military dictatorship, in a rebellion. 'freedom fighters' is just a marketing term. there is NO shame in being called rebels, and the myanma peoples fighting against the tatmadaw can take PRIDE in being called rebels against the tatmadaw's many evils.

@@DomWood Rebel is a negative term to the freedom fighters. The word Rebel is no longer relevant to this modern world. They're fighting for their Democracy, they earn the term freedom fighters not rebels. Rebel is very generic term and negative to the viewers.

@@Catler44 I posted a response but it got filtered for some reason, we'll just have to agree to disagree and share in our support of myanmar's people and their right to justice and dignity

@@DomWood some of our comments are not fitting with their narrative that's why it is filtered but we are on the same side, may they achieve long lasting peace and prosperity. May their people embrace democracy where people are allowed to express their grievances towards the unjust and corrupted military official. Again I apologize if my language seem provocative to you. 🤝

@@Catler44🤝 it's a shame we can't express ourselves properly, but thank you for this respectful conversation anyway

The ONLY reason hard cold communist Vietnam, absolute monarch Brunei, and western democracy timor can get along under one banner is for that very reason. Otherwise the organisation would simply fall apart.