Myanmar has been cut off from the world since a deadly coup. The ABC decided to venture inside
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Cut off from the world and mired in a deadly conflict, Myanmar is suffering from a forgotten war. But the ABC embedded with one of the many resistance groups who have banded together — and, against all odds, finally appear to be winning.

Peace has long been elusive in Myanmar.

The country has been mired in conflict since it gained independence from Britain in 1948, but it has been gripped by an increasingly savage civil war for the past four years.

A military junta seized power in an audacious coup in 2021. Since then, at least 60,000 people have been killed, 27,400 detained for opposing the junta, and 3.3 million driven from their homes.

But many in Myanmar are also fighting back.

  • metaStatic
    11•5 days ago

    if we could just stop murdering innocent civilians for like 2 seconds we could colonise the stars

    • @eran_morad
      4•4 days ago

      Wish I could believe this, but the nearest star is 4.25 light years away. Nonetheless, would be nice to stop killing ppl for fucking nothing.

      • metaStatic
        1•4 days ago

        even at sub light speeds the galaxy is a lot smaller than you might think

        • @eran_morad
          1•4 days ago

          cool. now think of what happens to a human that travels at relativistic speed.

          • metaStatic
            1•4 days ago

            The speed at which we could populate the entire galaxy at sub relativistic speeds is also kinda mind boggling and a big reason the Fermi paradox is so strong.

      • metaStatic
        6•5 days ago

        Colonialism has a bad name now because we didn’t stop doing it once all the empty land was gone; but we didn’t just grow out of the dirt, at some point someone colonised the planet and it was a good thing for most of us.