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Myanmar - The Forgotten Revolution

August 24, 2023

Myanmar's struggle for democracy has received little international attention. But it is dramatic:

DW Dokumentation | Myanmar - Ein vergessener Krieg
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 In 2021, more than 6,000 people were reported dead after protests against the military coup erupted, airstrikes hit towns and villages and artillery shelled pockets of resistance.

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The world seems to have forgotten the civil war raging in Myanmar. Thousands of young people are risking death and sacrificing their youth to fight a military coup that has deposed an elected government and stolen their future.  

 

 

 

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While the world was preoccupied with Covid and the horrors of the Russian war in Ukraine, this struggle began to play out in a country that had briefly opened the door to partial democracy under Aung San Suu Kyi -- before a military junta slammed it shut again.

 

 

 

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In February 2021, young people took to the streets to protest the military coup staged earlier that month by Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of Myanmar's armed forces.

 

 

 

 

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The protesters were horrified to discover that live ammunition was flying in their direction. People were being killed.

A team of courageous filmmakers spent more than a year in Myanmar, bringing viewers closer to a civil war that has been largely ignored internationally.

 

 

 

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