Who is fighting in Myanmar’s multi-front civil war?
Al Jazeera
Alliances are fluid in Myanmar’s civil war where a military regime, ethnic armed groups and pro-democracy forces are battling it out.
Myanmar has entered the sixth year of a brutal civil war that the military regime, which seized control of the country in 2021, is increasingly confident it can win.
The conflict was triggered when the country’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing ousted an elected government and detained civilian leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
That power grab reversed a decade of fragile democratic transition and produced not only a military dictatorship but a nationwide uprising — neither of which was new to this Southeast Asian nation of about 55 million people.
Since Burma’s independence (as the country was then known) from the British in 1948, the state centre has been in near-continuous conflict with ethnic minority communities who call the country’s highland borderlands their home.
Many were promised autonomy after decolonisation, but that never materialised.
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