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THE MORNING
AN OVERLOOKED WAR
In Myanmar, poets, doctors and lawyers have traded life in the cities for jungle
warfare.
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In southern Karenni, Myanmar.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
May 8, 2024, 6:40 a.m. ET
You’re reading The Morning newsletter. Make sense of the day’s news and ideas.
David Leonhardt and Times journalists guide you through what’s happening — and
why it matters. Get it sent to your inbox.
By Hannah Beech
I’m a roving Asia correspondent based in Bangkok.
A people take to arms and fight for democracy. A military terrorizes civilians
with airstrikes and land mines. Tens of thousands are killed. Millions are
displaced.
Yet it is all happening almost completely out of view.
Recently, I spent a week on the front lines of a forgotten war in the Southeast
Asian nation of Myanmar. Since a military junta overthrew a civilian
administration there three years ago, a head-spinning array of pro-democracy
forces and ethnic militias have united to fight the generals. The resistance
includes poets, doctors and lawyers who traded life in the cities for jungle
warfare. It also includes veteran combatants who have known no occupation but
soldier.
Now, for the first time, the rebels claim control of more than half of Myanmar’s
territory. In recent weeks they have overrun dozens of towns and Myanmar
military bases.
Today’s newsletter will explain how civil war has engulfed Myanmar — and why the
world has ignored a country that less than a decade ago was lauded as a
democratic success story.
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A COUP DEFIED
In February 2021, a military junta, led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, arrested
the nation’s civilian leaders and returned the country to full dictatorship. If
the generals expected the populace to cower in response to their coup, they were
wrong. With military snipers shooting unarmed protesters and bystanders,
including dozens of children, an armed resistance coalesced. Tens of thousands
of professionals and members of Gen Z decamped to the jungle. Rappers, Buddhist
monks and politicians, among others, learned how to shoot guns and arm drones.
Their hands grew callused.
This unlikely resistance has repelled the junta’s forces from wide swaths of the
country, including most of Myanmar’s borderlands. (Here are several useful
charts that explain how the civil war is unfolding.)
A map of Myanmar shows which parts of the country are largely under military
control or resistance control. The resistance now controls more than half of
Myanmar’s territory.
Areas of control in Myanmar
Largely military junta control
Largely resistance control
Contested
INDIA
CHINA
Mandalay
MYANMAR
Naypyidaw
Yangon
THAILAND
Bay of Bengal
Areas of control in Myanmar
Largely military junta control
Largely resistance control
Contested
INDIA
CHINA
BANGLADESH
Mandalay
MYANMAR
LAOS
Naypyidaw
Bay of Bengal
Yangon
THAILAND
Source: The map is a simplified adaptation based on an effective control map
produced by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M). The original map
provides more granular details of the situation of control.
By Weiyi Cai
ETHNIC GROUPS IN MYANMAR
A map of Myanmar shows how the country is split up into many ethnic groups.
Officially, 135 ethnic groups live in the country, and practically the only
thing they agree on is that this figure is wrong.
Kachin
Naga
Monewon
Kokang
Ta’ang
Wa
Danu
Shan
Chin
Shan
Rohingya
Inn
Pa-O
Lahu
Kayan
Karenni
Rakhine
Karen
Mon
Bamar (majority)
No data
Kachin
Naga
Monewon
Kokang
Ta’ang
Wa
Danu
Chin
Inn
Shan
Pa-O
Lahu
Rohingya
Kayan
Karenni
Rakhine
Karen
Mon
Bamar (majority)
No data
Note: The Karenni are also known as the Kayah, the Karen as the Kayin, the
Rakhine as the Arakan, and the Ta’ang as the Palaung.
Source: General Administration Department, Myanmar
By Weiyi Cai
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Hannah Beech is a Times reporter based in Bangkok who has been covering Asia for
more than 25 years. She focuses on in-depth and investigative stories. More
about Hannah Beech
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