'Backs to the wall': Myanmar military prepares to mark Armed Forces Day | Military News
As troops parade in Naypyidaw, questions are being asked about a military under pressure from anticoup forces.
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As troops parade in Naypyidaw, questions are being asked about a military under pressure from anticoup forces.
Myanmar's military junta is going forward with a mandatory draft set to begin in mid-April, but critics say doing so has the potential to negatively impact the economy and the military itself. The ruling junta, which seized power in a coup three years ago this month, says the objective is to call up about 60,000…
In interviews and in written testimonies, soldiers who surrendered or defected from the Myanmar military painted the image of an overstretched armed force in retreat.
Outside of a line of encircled military bases, the countryside in Kayah State in eastern Myanmar, on the border with Thailand, is under the control of the local resistance movement, born from a fusion of anti-junta forces and ethnic Karenni guerrilla fighters.
The vehicles in which 33 people were killed and set alight in December 2021 lie rusting on the roadside.