Posted on 02/26/2025 2:10:10 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
I was driving with the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), a faith-based frontline aid organization, down one of the few remaining paved roads that had survived years of war. One of the Rangers in the back of the pickup truck began banging on the cab’s ceiling—a signal to pull over. The driver swerved aggressively, quickly steering the vehicle into the jungle. Once under the cover of trees, everyone jumped out and took shelter in a drainage ditch, eyes fixed on the sky. Above us, the faint sound of jets echoed as they crisscrossed over our position. “Before they attack, you’ll hear the pitch change when they dive,” a veteran soldier said. We listened in silence, but the attack never came.
In the Myanmar civil war, every rebel knows that there are no good aircraft. The resistance forces have no planes or helicopters. So, when a plane, helicopter, or drone is heard, people run for cover. The few remaining schools, temples, hospitals, and churches all have bomb shelters nearby, as do the internally displaced people’s camps, which now house about 80% of the population.
Watching the jets, which, at this point of the war are responsible for most of the casualties, it was frustrating to realize that the resistance doesn’t have a single antiaircraft gun or man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS). Government forces can fly overhead with impunity, terrorizing the population and killing at will, without any fear of counterfire.
As the jets got slightly ahead of our position, one of the soldiers shouted: “They just fired rockets.”
(Excerpt) Read more at geopoliticalmonitor.com ...
Very similar to an incident from a year or more ago - but here is an upbeat take on it: Hallelujah chorus sung in Karenni State
That “resistance” is the Islamic side. Why in hell would you support them? Why would ISRAEL support them?
Burma only has a tiny, heavily persecuted Muslim minority. You have no idea what you are talking about.
It needs to be kept small...and persecuted.
Biden, his USAID, Obama, and Samantha Power sided with the rebels. Therefore, they are the bad guys... no missiles for you.
In fact, I'd like to see the IDF specifically include non-government aligned Rohingya in a weapons distribution insofar as it could be arranged. It would send a message of conciliation to the Muslim world, making it clear that if you aren't screaming "Death to the Jews" then Israel has nothing against them.
Meanwhile, the very rockets that Hamas wanted to hit IDF airfields with, would prove invaluable to saving civilian lives by disrupting operations and destroying infrastructure and aircraft on the ground in Burma. Hard to understand how anyone familiar with the situation could object to that.
Geez, you are delusional on this topic. As the article points out, any sort of aid from the US has been completely and utterly lacking. The only support comes from private efforts like Christians backing FBR.
Are you a China stooge, since they are the primary beneficiaries of Burma's war against it's own Christian and other non-Muslim people?
What are they resisting?
The difference now is that the military junta agreed to share power with a civilian government for over a decade, giving everyone a taste of freedom. When it became clear the military was losing power they launched a coup in 2021 (after losing elections by a 80%-20% margin). But this time even the townsfolk of the Bamar majority were outraged, with thousands fleeing into the hill country where the historically oppressed tribes welcomed them and have been training them and learning to work together.
That's going to be a challenge, but the junta is now so weak that even the relatively disorganized array of tribal armies and PDF (People's Defense Force) militias has been gaining ground against them. The junta can still kill a lot of people, but the general sense is that it's just a matter of time now as the army garrisons are being cut off and the junta heartland grows ever smaller. The remnants of the civilian government, the NUG (National Unity Government), just has to keep things from falling apart among the ranks of the resistance.
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