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From Our Own Correspondent: Myanmar's Jungle Revolutionaries

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25/05/2024

25/05/2024 GMT

Myanmar's Jungle Revolutionaries

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Myanmar's Jungle Revolutionaries

A fierce battle is being fought between young opposition fighters and the military junta.

Deep in the jungle in Karenni state in Myanmar, a fierce battle is being fought between young opposition fighters and the military junta. Plus stories from Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Pascale Harter introduces stories from Myanmar, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. 

In Myanmar, tens of thousands of people have been killed since the military seized power in a coup in 2021, halting the country’s tentative transition to democracy - a further 2.5m people have been displaced. Quentin Sommerville has spent a month in the east of the country, living alongside resistance groups fighting the junta the jungles of Karenni state on the border with Thailand.

In a visit to Kyiv this week, Germany’s foreign minister urged Western governments to supply more air defence weapons to protect Ukrainians from what she described as 'the rain of Russian missiles.' Jonathan Beale met with a Ukrainian military unit known as the Peaky Blinders, which is defending territory near Kharkiv with armed drones.

The world’s largest inland body of water, the Caspian Sea, is shrinking at an unprecedented rate. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent travelled to Mangystau, in western Kazakhstan, to find out why this is happening, and how it’s affecting the people and the wildlife along its coast.

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