Is Myanmar's military losing ground? | Inside Story
Myanmar's military government has suffered significant defeats at the hands of anti-coup opposition groups in recent weeks.
Karen fighters and other rebel movements have seized a vital town on the border with Thailand and tried to attack the capital using drones laden with explosives.
So, what's next for military junta as it deals with these security challenges?
And do the recent gains rebel groups have made represent a turning point for Myanmar?
Presenter: James Bays
Guests:
Khin Ohmar -- Spokesperson, Progressive Voice, a policy research and human rights organisation that advocates for a democratic Myanmar
Kim Jolliffe -- independent consultant who works towards peace, security and human rights in Myanmar and the wider region.
Nicholas Bequelin -- Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center
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I'm glad Myanmar is getting media attention again. I hope Myanmar manages to sort things out. Myanmar is an absolutely wonderful country and the people are awesome. My thoughts and prayer go out to the long suffering Myanmar people!
Prayers.
"Anglos caused most of the world's problems." - David Cameron, former British Prime Minister Burma would have been much better off without Anglo British Colonialism. There's hardly any Muslim, Hindu or Christian there up until Colonialism. I suppose it's fair to say that many of these tragedies that nation facing today, such as racial, ethnic and religious conflicts, started with Colonialism. Here in Singapore, a tiny island with 6 million souls lives like sardines in a can, elsewhere in nearby vast bountiful Australia which is ten thousand times 10,000 bigger with a mere 27 million inhabitants. A similar situation in tiny and packed Japan, which is running out of space and land. Do you know that their living room and bedroom are the same place, and that most Japanese people sleep in their living room. Here's the one solution I see. Why don't Burma's Rohingya Muslim, Hindu & Christian population, if they wish, move to a place like Anglo Colonized Australia/New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific region? After all, these are Asia-Pacific lands looted from Native Asians-Pacific islanders.
@@JohatsuSha Prayers alone is not enough, I'm afraid.. Burma would have been much better off without Anglo British Colonialism. There's hardly any Muslim, Hindu or Christian there up until Colonialism. I suppose it's fair to say that many of these tragedies that nation facing today, such as racial, ethnic and religious conflicts, started with Colonialism. Here in Singapore, a tiny island with 6 million souls lives like sardines in a can, elsewhere in nearby vast bountiful Australia which is ten thousand times 10,000 bigger with a mere 27 million inhabitants. A similar situation in tiny and packed Japan, which is running out of space and land. Do you know that their living room and bedroom are the same place, and that most Japanese people sleep in their living room." Here's the one solution I see... Why don't Burma's Rohingya Muslim, Hindu & Christian population, if they wish, move to a place like Anglo Colonized Australia/New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific region? After all, these are Asia-Pacific lands looted from Native Asians-Pacific islanders. "Anglos caused most of the world's problems." - David Cameron, former British Prime Minister
@@NurseVic-sy5nd 'Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization' are evil things done by evildoers. 😔🤷
Thank you so much for your kind wore and prayer.may god Bless you too
Myanmar's military is not only losing control, it's disintegrating in front of our eyes.
I like the hope u have for the situation but let be real they are not disintegrating anytime soon
@@Lagolski Yeah! But they will in the near future. They won't stand for another decade. The so called Myanmar Junta's standard Army using 30% of GDP and having over 60 years of history losing fights against 3 years old PDF and EAOs whose finanance and population are mainly supported by normal working people's donations.
@@Lagolskieven the Chinese with the squint eyes can see better than you dum blind fuc 🤣
@@BlahBlah-oj2dylol 3 year old eaos
@@Siviks309 3 years old PDF and EAOs whose finanance and population... read it again between the compound phrase.
Thanks Al Jazeera for presenting every situations around the world unlike other medias, which only care for big titles.
Thank you for keeping Myanmar in the news. Well moderated.
The myanmar military once accused Aung Sung Su Kyi of 'Democratic dictatorship' whatever that means.
lol
The whole country doesn't even pay attentions to whatever the military said. Even the dog's barking may make sense compare to them.
It could be a social Democracy, which is a one party movement,it's very strict , too many rules and people can't vote for their new leader, only the party members will vote for new leader ,like north Korea for example
@zoomdiepie75 Myanmar there's not a lot of political party that is far reach and have trust of the people like NLD due to the fact Aung San Su Kyi has gain trust of the people since the late 80's near the time of 88 uprising and the events after that made her very popular among the public.
@@zoomdiepie75that's exactly what military did tho, almost quarter of Myanmar legislation house is not elected, but appointed by military. Is that social democracy?
Great program hopefully this helps Myanmar
Fight For Freedom!!.....💪👲
"Is it on the path to all out civil war?" It has been in a civil war since the coup! What a stupid line.
I love Aljazeera news, it is timely and presents the truth with Myanmar news. Thank you. This guy in outfit and his band of brothers need to step down for good. I firmly believe that all the ethnic groups from borders and the plain will govern the country a lot a lot better than the civilian killing institution. Our neighboring leaders can't prove they can help the situation in Myanmar improve in these three years. Please stop interfering going to Rakkhine, Kachin, Karenni, Karen, or Chin. When borders are no longer controlled by the Military, it will be interesting to see how fast and how much will be the travel of poppy products out of border gates. May the people win.
The Myanmar military regime is so desperate that they now force Rohingya people to fight for them 😅
Shame on the Myanmar military after all.they did yo the Rohingya
@lydisnnaudu3831 so why rohingya come myanmar we say them get out like a usa 🇺🇸 and mexico 🇲🇽 but rohingya didn't want get out in myanmar
@@user-sz9pe1bn2z were all humans we should learn to live together. I hope your family is forced out of your lands so you beg everyone just someone to accept you. Only then you will realise we all human and should coexist
@@user-sz9pe1bn2z they've been there since even before your country born
@@kuchenkoren4051 First several groups moved to Myanmar in earlier history. But the majority of them was moved there by UK in 19th century.
And how did it all get to this point where we are in the world of today Thanks 🙏🏾 ❤Al Jazeera English for sharing
Myanmar will become 5 different country soon. It's demand from indigenous peoples
Watch the video
Watch the video man @@John-.-Smith111
Is it just me, or are Al Jazeera videos all 100% left audio channel?
Lmao a company owned by billionaire dictators is a left wing channel??? You have already smooth brain if you think that any real leftist ideas would ever be talk about on media controlled by billionaire. Fox, cnn, MSNBC, NYT, aljazeera. All owned by billionaire, yet are left or right wing media source's LMAO. All news media is reactionary (Conservative) and are nvr interested in talking about working class issues in a working class way, it's always in the markets way (capitalist).
This is why I love this channel I get know about the world free of charge. Pretty crazy we get access to such high quality production for free
The Myanmar Civil War has been going on since the military coup
Nah. The civil war has been going on since Burma got independence and minorities didn’t
have you ever played the game the citadel and the Second game, Beyond citadel
My left ear really enjoyed this video.
Yeah this is awful
I cannot imagine myself living in a country in chaos for so many years.
Thanks,from thailand
They just giving away their soldiers and weapons, I’m really grateful for their generosity.
THERE NEVER SHALL OR IS A MILITARY GOVERNMENT, ONLY MARTIAL LAW COUNCIL OR MILITARY JUNTA ADMINISTRATION
Though I hope junta would lose soon, I wonder how many of the opinions expressed in the video are wishful thinkings. I don't see junta lose anytime soon. I'm surprised that no one mentioned the latest military development, i.e. the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacking junta. KIA is one of the most powerful insurgent groups in Myanmar. It didn't join the Three-Brotherhood led Operation 1027 but took its own action in last week to fight againt junta. This is a significant development. The U.S. just announced that it would give aid of 1.2 billion to four insurgent groups, KIA, which is pro U.S, being one of them. This might be the reason KIA began to fight. If Wa army, another major ethnic military force, also starts to fight against junta, I'd be much more optimistic.
We don't rely on US for support they have been absolutely useless at best for last 100 years. Those states will either be incorporated or absorbed under the new government or they will become ISIS like CIA directive groups in Middle East and continue to be terrorist. So Myanmar as a whole have to co front that. I don't mind that as long as the rest of the country are free from Junta and began to form under the democratic government
The audio is really messed up in this video, the right channel is pretty much non existent
Gang rebels wtf,they are guerrila fighter Pdf also know as freedom fighters
As of April 12 at 9:51AM , min aung HLAING HAS NO MORE JUNTA SOLDIERS LEFT, EVERY ONE ESCAPED, ABANDONED CIVIL WAR, WENT HIDING TO THAILAND, BANGLADESH , CAMBODIA, VIETNAM AND LAO countries ... min aung Hlaing IS NOW ALONE. !!!
Phil is right-wing now! Why does Al Jazeera invite him to an interview? To Kim: "independent" consultant. I am a dependent consultant, because I am dependent on the money of the Jobcenter.
Only 15 years ago a sim card for a phone cost £1000 and you had to have government connections to get one,now everyone has a phone and internet access and so can keep in touch inside the country,it was much easier for the army to control things before
The thumbnail😂😂😂😂😂😂 First World War type Armored infantry fighting vehicles😅😂
The people of Myanmar want to develop into a Western society that offers a range of benefits to its residents. Such as: Strong Democracy and Individual Rights: The West has a stable democracy with free and fair elections. Citizens enjoy fundamental rights like freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. The rule of law is upheld, ensuring equal treatment under the law.
But you need to know about U Nu's Anti-Fascist and People's Liberation Party and Islamic people's leader, Dr. Yu Nusf's Arakan Rohingya National Army to establish the Budhisim as the State's religious form and the Challengers of many majority ethnic groups to take power balance. And Atlantic charter for their independent nation to take easy back for United Nation.❤
The significance of 1027 is a factor in changing the ground but it should not be overlooked the groundworks of fighting in Chin, Kayak, Sagaine, and Karen. Without weakening of the military's strength, 1027 may not be possible.
The day was counted.
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Things are likely to get much worse in the next couple years. Myanmar people are notorious for not working together. I am afraid it gonna be another blood bath even after military is gone. 😢
It always gets worse before getting better but look around the world! The course of the parting the empire or big nations have actual prosperity with long lasting unity among those whom once in big family but hostility and oppression?
@@lavinokalioand then it gets worse again. Human nature.
A guerilla army could potentially conduct a stealthy recruitment campaign within urban areas, recruiting and arming freedom fighters and inserting experienced guerilla fighters for intelligence gathering, establishing forward operating bases, creating supply routes to smuggle heavy weapons and explosives into the cities, and setting up safe houses for their forces. In theory, such a campaign could culminate in a coordinated assault on critical military infrastructure, similar to North Vietnam's Tet Offensive in the 1970s. It is important to note that history has shown that making enemies of one's own people inevitably leads to destruction for all involved. Myanmar's struggle is no different from Vietnam’s own struggle, the communist north was driven by the ideology of unifying the country, while the corrupt south was interested in making money in those times of conflict.. Ideology and beliefs are critical in war, an ideologically driven group would do everything in their power to achieve victory regardless of the cost.
Can someone tell the Brit announcer that "Junta" with a hard J is definitely not how to say "Junta" (hoonta). In Spanish it basically means "team," this shouldn't be a mystery to anyone.
But why do foreigners should pronounce this word in Spanish? Spanish speakers also do not pronounce English words in their original forms.
Mywaddy will have more to do with the dkba changing sides -AGAIN,more than anything else, I've heard that all the main bridges leading to it have been blown up anyway, the cost of rebuilding the mess the army has caused is horrendous
I sometimes wonder who is actually behind all of this. I do know that the military has power of the jade industry but did they take back full power because of that? Who is providing them with all of these weapons or are they manufacturing these weapons themselves? To profit from human catastrophe must be the lowest form of human behavior.
The ethnics armies haven't just been opposed to military rule for many decades, they've been opposed to being ruled by the Burma/Myanmar government since the beginning. It stems from the British obsession of demanding to keep the country as one in order to grant independence when the different ethnic groups wanted to breakaway. Backdoor deals were made, like the unity govt was supposed to only be temporary in order to get the British to grant independence, the promise that the ethnic group could then later breakaway and form their own self governing states was not kept.
This is the most absurd and studipd1st 😅 thing I heard. They all respected and were under Aung San, Byokye, you probably don't know who is the father of the country. They only oppose the Na Win government when they assassinated him.
@@zinny999 No, the ethnic groups always wanted to form their own self governing states. Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi's father was well respected, that's why he was able to get the leaders of the ethnic groups to agree to the unity govt, but it was always with the promise that once independence was gained the ethnic groups would be allowed to break away to form their own countries. The reason they had to do that was because the British would not grant independence unless the country so as united Burma. The secret deal was reneged on by the Bamar dominated government. Hence why the ethnic groups always maintained their own armies to fight for independence from Burma/Myanmar. This is why the ethnic armies are fighting now to get a federal system so they can have self governance in lieu of full independence.
@@abmong let me guess it was the Christians who converted in 19th century who want to break away? Wherever the missionaries go they sow seeds of divisions.
@@mogambo4565 This conflict can't actually be blamed on the Christians, not unless you count the British Empire as Christian, and even then they're only partly to blame. Problem stems from Burma/Myanmar's own failures in integrating the ethnic groups into the main national identity of the country. It would be a bit of an essay to explain it all, but long story short. Burma had always been ruled as a feudal empire rather than a country. What I mean by that is when the Burmese Kings conquered those ethnic city states, the ethnic lords of the cities were allowed to keep their position if they served under the Burmese King and provided troops when the King called for them, basically they became the Burmese King's high ranking officials. When the British came, they removed the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty but kept that feudal system largely in place, instead of reporting to the Burmese King they just now reported to the British Governor. When the British left there was no leader the ethnic lords needed to reported to, hence they became the leaders of their own ethnic armies, later a lot of these armies would splinter or new ones formed with communists ideology, hence why there are multiple ethnic armies in some ethnic control regions, some of them fighting amounst themselves, communists vs ethno-nationals. Contrast that with neighboring Thailand where those medieval ethnic cities states had been much better integrated into "Thainess" and no longer feel a separate people. Where the minority ethnic groups in Burma/Myanmar feels treated as second class citizens. The ethnic minorities of Thailand are equal citizens under the King. The other thing that Thailand did, back when it was still Siam was the Siamese/Thai King successfully abolished the feudal system and took the old city states into central royal control. The regional armies were rolled into the national army. The families of those regional lords were allowed to keep their wealth and given positions in government and were allowed to retire out of politics until those families were no long in politics, some are still in regional politics, but that's by their own choice and were elected under democratic system. Problem is the Junta Generals just don't command the same authority as the old Burmese Kings. In this modern age, since Myanmar no longer has Kings nor want to return to a royal system, only a democratic leader would command that kind of respect, and the ethnic groups would also have to feel included in the government if Myanmar has any hope of remaining unified as one country. First kick out the Junta, second form a Federal system were the ethnic regions have some autonomy, last but not least, abolish the Tatmadaw and form a new national army from the anti junta and ethnic armies, appoint the generals of the ethnic armies as national generals, get them to rolled their ethnic troops formally into the new national army.
Not onli myanmar other democratic country if it comes to dictator ship then this case will also arise too in the other countries india at the close rate of democraticdictatorship
Stop dying for Chinese benefits, negotiate immediately!
When you do wrong by others it comes back 100 folds in ways you cannot comprehend 😂
Truely myanmar military is losing
Some people started thinking about what the Juntas were actually doing. Not taking a response like making a counter-offensive but instead terror bombing is what some people said dumb or genius. They don't know where and how many of their enemies are there, so they decided to try to lure them out like some infamous villains to them.
Please help Burma people
Its losing on only Media !!
rubbish not facts the junta has been in power since 1949 since then they have been killing the tribes there now the people are united in fighting the junta i wish them all the very best of luck
If Thailand join in to help the Juntas they troop will also suffer heavy losses and Taiwan 🇹🇼 is being humbled down by an earthquake
This in particular got nothing to do with the West but the West have involved themselves
The entire world will find out what in the world is going on and what the world problems is all about
In order to get many on the right track and go in the right direction global one have to know what are the world problems and who is causing them and where is it coming from
What ethnic militia they talking about?
Junta wants illicit money 💰
my advice to youngsters, do not comply Myanmar army conscription and recruitment rules.... they get you and rebels fight and die for their power survival, too selfish
the people united are not rebels ffs
Imagine being so sensitive that the word rebel offends you
Russians should take a leaf out of the Burmese rebels’ book.
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War. Not. Bot
Nothing is new with this country
so conscription doesn't work in myanmar, but it works in ukraine? how does that work?
ukrainians fight for their country. myanmar military fight for a dictator with his fat children who does that the same?
Because Ukrainian are fighting against Russia and Myanmar military are conscripting to fight it's own civilians 😂😂
@@zinny999 oh the ukrainians did NOT shoot at their own civilians for 8 years?
@@zinny999 wait, so ukraine was NOT shooting it's own civilians starting in 2014?
@@mynameismynameis666you should ask Ukrainians 😂
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Yes the God's have lefted the Junta
កងកម្លាំងតស៊ូរបស់ប្រជាជនដែលស្រឡាញ់លទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតេយ្យនិងផ្ដួលរបបចោរផ្ដាច់ការចោល។
The current insurrection is in myawadi town where is an important export import taxes collective point between two countries thai n myanmar are being intensifies between the junta iron fist army n landslides resistances are taking place at the maintime n nevertheless according to sources broke out behind the losing ground the junta attempted using nerve agent gradually is vice versa interrupted innocent war displacement inhabitants is fear able fenomena so we urge the international momentum to watch out this bewildered junta from in furious please... Thanks
Myanmar will soon become like korea.
How US have thier indfenden,😏😏
Like Israel committing genocide in Palestine and now with Myanmar military committing genocide towards Rohingya the international community need to intervene to stop this unfair and unethical treatment towards minorities. ✌️🙏
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Al Jazeera English has 13.4 M "subs". This video has been out for at least 3 weeks and only has 126k views, 1.4k 👍 and 201 comments? Yeah okay!! Totally legit "non biased news" that isnt manufactured by bots😂
Karen, Chin, Tibet, Tongans, Samoans, Hawaiians, Guams, No time for China 🇨🇳 😂
I❤ Myanmar, not Palestine not Iran
A dog turns to its vomited
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If only the Rebel Movements were brown and the Myanmar military was white, maybe they get the attention they needed. But sorry, people in Myanmar, your attacker is not white.
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*America is trying so hard to turn Myanmar into China's Ukraine. But China doesn't care!!* 😂😂😂
what ?? with its heroin and gas pipeline trades from there you mean ?
America doesn't care about the peaceful citizens of Myanmar, remember biden turned his back on them .
Simply I don’t get it! Armed Revolution was single handedly born by the realisation of true hard fact that resistance groups will not get help from western/US as such magnitude of Ukraine vs Russia!
Always that one conspiracy theorists trying to get the US involved lol
I smell CIA
You media and foreigners knew nothing at all. National Unity Government is not the one who chose arm resistance but the people of Myanmar are the one made a decision for arm resistance then NUG national union government was listening. Don't make the history opposite to the reality. You guys are not real expert about Burma. Burmese knew the best about Burma. Myanmar.
Free!!Free!! palestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Arakan army (AA) must stop rohingya genocide in Arakan Myanmar army (junta) started rohingya genocide Now Arakan army ongoing rohingya genocide in Arakan
I will accept the fact that Arakan people and Rohingyas have hostile relationship but right now, Arakan army is not genociding Rohingya because of the religion or hatred. Arakan army have no choice but to eliminate rohingyas because Rohingyas are fighting for Myanmar Military which is forced to fight obviously. The one you should blame for all the atrocities in Myanmar is the Junta military.
@@pantherhmtd2683 thanks for your information
Rohangiyas are fighting for military junta and they are against neighbouring countries like Thailand and India. They are faithful for Bangladesh
Just study the facts how Rohingya has been treated by the Myanmar military for generations then you will know where to make your voice heard for Rohingya! Unless you are bot or Myanmar DSA grads then not hard to learn the facts
Remember to rohingya, you cant escape Allahs plan.
See palastine, Allah's plan too?
@@StrongDetermination Yeah 100 percent, victory is for Palestine
@@user-pi2uu2sp1c Hahahaha. Nice joke.
@@Kalimdor199Menegroth Your the joke. It been 6 months and you can't defeat a 30,000 men armed with aks and RPGs in small strip land completely blockaded, getting help from the most powerful countries and having the most advanced weapons. On top of that using scorched earth tactics without regard to civilians. You kuffar are the joke. Like in Afghanistan victory is promised for us no matter how long it takes
Lol Allah didn't care for rohingyas. Not a single god from every religion would care about this world because this world is too confusing and complicating for even the gods to understand
we dont care
I don’t care*** Learn to speak for yourself
@@Afrikanstar1999 we dont care in the west
@@molkakaminskiyou don't speak for the west
@@kilo4911 ask 100 westerners if they give a flying monkey about it, good luck😂
@@molkakaminski in 14 hours you got no likes. Give up
Where is Modi? he boast Myanmar as part of United India?
Modi is thief
He was supporter of Junta, he likes drug and human trafficking 😅
How these corrupt generals look ugly.
Indian army kai Sub sai zada Corrupt generals Hain
Entrenched experters all have their own agenda, including AI Jazeera itself. This is foremost an ethnic problem, the main ethnic group has no enough pull to unit the country under any system, let alone democracy, of which they tried with celebrity figure Aung San Suu Kyi didn't work out anyway.
This global Conspiracy is indeed apart of the world problems