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Antoine VÉDEILHÉ

Myanmar: Inside the Chin ethnic group's armed resistance to ruling junta

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Since the February 2021 coup in Myanmar, the Christian Chin ethnic minority has taken up arms to defend its land, identity and ideals against the all-powerful ruling junta in the Buddhist-majority country. Our team reports.

In remote areas of Myanmar on the Indian border, an all-out war has been waged for two and a half years, largely hidden from view and rarely covered by Western journalists.

The rebels of the Chin National Army (CNA) have been fighting relentlessly against the soldiers of the Tatmadaw, the regular Burmese army, to keep control of their land.

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Using shotguns against rocket launchers, machine guns against mortars and homemade mines against tanks, they are engaged in asymmetric warfare. 

But in the jungle that they know off by heart, the CNA fighters are bravely resisting the Burmese military.

Our team went to meet those who are ready to pay the ultimate price to defend their land and their people.

A report by Antoine Védeilhé and Thomas Blanc with ARTE.

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