Embedding with resistance fighters in Myanmar

I've recently returned from a week of embedding with an armed resistance group that has been fighting the military junta since it took power in a coup in 2021. My crew and I were able to see how young resistance fighters have managed to take and control territory with few resources, all while training in flip flops and growing their own rice. The soldiers within the Garuda column – a group founded shortly after the coup by a group of Burmese men who had taken part in the 1988 democratic uprising – are strikingly young, with most under the age of 25.

Over the next month I'll be posting reporting from that brief but eye-opening trip that gave us a look into a civil war that much of the world has all but forgotten.