Myanmar conflict: Insurgent groups and the military junta battle for control | DW News
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- In Myanmar, fierce fighting between insurgent groups and the military government is pushing the nation towards collapse. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the ongoing battle for control. A central point in the battle has been the town of Myawaddy on Myanmar's eastern border with Thailand.
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00:00 Myanmar junta battles insurgent groups
02:52 Jason Tower, Country Director Burma Program
06:31 Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK
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Thank you for keeping Myanmar in the news.
Israel and Ukraine are way more important to be completely honest with you
Gaylord@@draculastraphouse7863
@@draculastraphouse7863please explain why
@@draculastraphouse7863 why?
@@draculastraphouse7863🤮🤮
i like people in Myanmar they are good PuBG player, i have many friends before, now they don't play anymore because of war
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.
yeah pubg is popular in Myanmar. I am from Myanmar and yeah we have to relinquish our hobbies just because our country in unstable.
Has anyone looked at how Thai military government support for the Junta has changed since the public elections in Thailand was overwhelmingly against the Thai military government???
ตอนนี่กระเหรี่ยง 3กลุ่มตีกันเพราะแย่งผลประโยชน์ ผู้นำกะเหรียงแย่งผลประโยชน์ประชาชนอยากได้อะไรใครสนเหรอ โลกสวย
@@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.
@@FinUgShiet Thanks for saying that. I am a Kayin ( karen) girl and I am happy when people say good things about us cus we are truely honest people. Its a pity that we are treated like trash by the myanmar government. I just hope we will be ale to have our own country in the future....
We're Malaysian love our brothers Burmese 🇲🇾❤🇲🇲
Democracy for the people of Myanmar!
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
Unfortunately China and Russia raised dictators in Myanmar but no one mentioned it.
where do you think rebels got their weapon?
Facts
unfortunately America and Europe supply weapon to Ukraine and israel
Glad atleast one media outlet is still keeping us updated on this war
I am an Indonesian, we hope Myanmar gets Peace Agreement across all parties involved as soon as possible, and bring the true republic to its people, have a peaceful election and then they have elected President like Indonesia. Peace be with Myanmar!
first they have to kick out cia
Someone really need to check Burmese-English dictionaries for discrepancies. Burmans seem to think the use of “junta” and “rebels” imply that the PDF are a bunch of usurpers from the mountains, which is the opposite of what the media actually means. So to clarify:
- “junta” is a negative word, implying that the current government was formed through forceful usurpation by a bunch of generals.
- “rebels” is a neutral word which denotes anyone fighting the current political system. So you can say “the PDF are heroic rebels restoring the legitimate government” and there’d be no problem with that.
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.
Let there be peace. At least the world will know what exactly is happening in Myanmar.
it's like that since british mess up asia - old news
This is happenning now Mr. Evans.
I have many friends in Myanmar before, we played COC, now nobody is left.
If the current government loses will the name change back to Burma ?
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.
Not rebels
People defense force
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
thanks for update Myanmar news
I must say DW news has been really keen on Myanmar lately.
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.
Everyone is rooting for you! Hopefully the junta is routed and democracy is reinstated from this dictatorship! 🇲🇲 🇺🇸
What a puppet state for USA to encounter China 🤮
By democracy you mean a US puppet in power, right?
Get your democracy, Resistance Forces. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Some of the questions asked in the second segment are ridiculous
As a indian we are worried about that country
We want democracy in country
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
Glad to hear its still going well
My question here is what will happen after the resistance takes over after the Junta? All these armed groups though all united to fight off a power which took over by force, how do we know some of this large armed groups won’t try and take power themselves or pressure the new government with another civil war if they aren’t given what they want?
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.
save myanmar for democracy 😢
demoncrazy freedom don't even work in usa🤣
Even if junta falls , opposition can end up fighting each other's and can become next Afghanistan if better sense doesn't prevail.
Berita jarang di liput
That country collapsed years ago.
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 👍🏾
It sounds fishy that mechanized military is losing ground to insurgents. I guess either their training is not up to mark or they hesitating to took big action.
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.
Is there any possibilities of becoming the Burma in the hands of China... If the trades are to restricted between china and people in Myanmar...
Damn i didnt know the Junta had lost that much ground
The hunta tactics of terrorising civilians have lost its terror now and people valiantly suffer their hardship with bright hopes for the future. Min yaung hlaing might be secretly shivering with fear.
I have been following this story from the beginning. We are all concerned about this political instability issue.
Best put a king on the throne
It is a sad state of affairs as Burma could have enjoyed a similar standard of living to that of China as it has rich resources. I think the use of drones has allowed the opposition groups to now have a better means to fight the junta but the West has shown little interest in helping.
China has just been interested in exploiting the countries timber and mineral resources
Why mentioned as Gvrnmt? DW is always focus on accuracy. What happen now? Let me know who recognized as Gvrmnt?
Myanmar new generation freedom.. not like china communities
They were taught a hard lesson (in 1989).
China is supporting the rebels. Unlike the west who just talks
its inaccurate. Junta is not the peoples government. remember it was taken away from them by force.
An encresingly isolated dictatorship using drone strikes on their own civilians? A large coalition of "resistance" forces who want different futures for the country? I guess Alex Garland's Civil War was about Myanmar.
Boba Fett looking soldier. Anyway, I wish nothing but peace to everyone.
The new government is like will do north korea in myanmar lol
Burmese military using chemical gas in battle ground.
Share people
Bro no one knows where it’s at 😂
Southeast Asia, blood. It borders Thailand.
UN Special Envoy (Noeleen Heyzer) Report still stands truly to date as:-
1. Public has lost (Complete) Trust in the junta/SAC/National Army; (Envoy's Statement)
2. Junta/SAC is manipulating (with whatsoever means it gets; ("Continuing" commit atrocities, human rights violations etc.) to stay in Power no matter what. (Envoy's Statement) Ref. UN - Mar 2023.
Won’t be surprised if the normal junta army personnel’s turn against the military generals who have all the wealth and power and the soilders only face death for nothing , even the drive to conscript backfired and the conscript joined the independence freedom fighters , they lost the north and the drug monies that support the junta now they about to lose the south and the monies from the oil and gas .
How long before they collapse since the maps shows the areas the junta is in control but the independence freedom fighters come from the areas shown as junta control. 😊.
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.
don't use the Junta as Government, shame on you. Should use some pronouns like The Thief of Power or something like that. be respectful to Myanmar People.
That's just how politics work for like forever
These ethnic groups are not rebel but they’re Revolutionary Armed Forces, but freedom fighters. Since Myanmar's military regime (military dictatorship) is attacking them and they are fighting back. The Myanmar communist regime has no right to control the borders of ethnic groups. Ethnic groups must control their borders and maintain their property independence. Many of my relatives are KNLA soldiers and veterans.
Freedom Fighters = Rebels
Military Junta not Communists Regime
@@Siviks309yup yup
Who's supplying the rebels. I'd be surprised if the Chinese aren't involved with the Junta.
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.
Philpine and taiwan japan bigest suprted by mymar rebals
Where is the UN?
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.
Freedom Fighters✅(Correct term)
Rebels❎(Incorrect term)
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
Karen are not rebellious they fight for their own country freedom ok.
Down junta
Bangladesh will be Allie with the Arakan Army
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
Mymar govt suprted by china and russia and north korea
Eu&Usa sould support Anti - Junta Military Government
Why are myanmar groups called resistance group and Hamas is called terrorist group by DWNazimedia? While both groups are fighting the tyranny regimes
Your comment answers itself. 😂
Even if it's a tyrannical government, it's still the de jure government.
No sympathy for them!
Miseur basskullu
Duffer generals don't care about their country like Pakistani generals
Mymar rebals suprted by india america isreal european union austrilia and nato countries
Terrible color contrast on your graph. Alteast make it red and blue and not different shades of blue.
Don't understand his English 😅
This situation is for some reason not as important as Isreal and Palestine.
Are these lives less worthy ?
Hypocrisy
There is little to no outsiders interest involved here. That's why. Burma has been isolationist for half century at this point.
this is why ASEAN is worst Org compare to others org
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.
ASEAN is an economic community, any political disorder is clearly written with no intervention treaty. If you expected something like the EU, then you'll have to have all countries having democratic values.
@@absentmindedshirokuma8539Vietnam is far from a hard cold communist, from all the communist countries in the world, I'd choose Vietnam to live in. But I do agree that the only neutral countries that are holding ASEAN alive are Vietnam, W.Timor, Brunei or Indonesia.