Could Myanmar’s coup come to an end? | The Take

Rebels fighting Myanmar’s government are making significant gains. Could they topple the coup leaders who took power just over three years ago?

In this episode:
Tony Cheng, Al Jazeera Correspondent

Episode credits:
This episode was produced by David Enders, Khaled Soltan, and Sonia Bhagat with Kevin Hirten in for Malika Bilal. Zaina Badr, Sonia Baghat, and Manahil Naveed fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

[landstar]

If resistance get supported by international community only 1% what the support given to Ukraine long ago the dictator already overthrew!!

[spicycheesegaming]

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[anjurmuhammad]

Myanmar army
Arakan army
Must Stop rohingya Genocide in Arakan Myanmar

[montrak]

The military has never seen that serious unity of ethnic groups and GenZ freedom fighters. Their divide and rule practice among different ethnic groups including Bamar no longer works. Now is the time for the Militay's nightmare. One thing : no one in Myanmar can't confirm the fact that Ms. Suu Kyi was moved from prison. Rumor only.

[nangoo]

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[Ignacio]

Prayers and good wishes to Myanmar. Let there be peace 🙏

[SmellySumtom]

Without *Russia's aircraft* support, the Myanmar Army would be quickly defeated.

[WaterShowsProd]

While a good overview of the history of this conflict, the most recent information presented is already outdated. There is one Karen faction which had its own treaty with the military, and administered Myawaddy, where the scam centres and casinos referenced were constructed. This group (KNA) stood back when the primary Karen group (KNU) seized the military bases and took control of Mywaddy away from the junta. The junta responded by bombing the town, including a hospital, causing 3, 000 refugees to cross the river into Thailand. They then threatenedThe KNA with bombing the lucrative casinos and grey-market centres, and The KNA once again switched sides. The soldiers who had been sheltering under the bridge were given escort by The KNA to replace The Myanmar Flag at the army base–which The KNU had removed and where The Karen Flag had been raised in its place–and returned captured soldiers to The Tatmadaw junta. The sheltering soldiers were also allowed to return to The Burmese Army. The KNU and PDF were annoyed by this and retreated from Myawaddy, which the junta claims as a victory. The KNU and PDF have said the battle is not over and retreated to a hold a position outside Mywaddy and have just recently taken another area called Hpa Pun. MIlitary officials from the junta meanwhile went to Beijing to try to negotiate support.

There have also been resistance force strikes on targets in the central cities, which is the junta's last stronghold. An airforce base in the capital city Naypyidaw, and the primary military academy in Mandalay have both been attacked by rockets and drones. On the western border, Burmese soldiers have been fleeing into Bangladesh, and Bangladesh has just returned them to Myanmar, while The Arakhan forces are manoeuvering to take the capital city of Rakhine State and cut the junta off from even more trade ports.

Reinforcement divisions have been pushed back and even wiped out by Karen and Karenni and PDF forces in the eastern states, and now The Pa-oh have formed another malitia resisting the junta, while rumours of a Mon resistance force having come into operation.

In Yangon the people are subject to two four-hour power cuts every day, on a set schedule, while in other cities the people don't know when they will happen. These are already disruptive, but with the prolonged heatwave it has become even more of a problem.

The Rainy Season will be starting soon and there is speculation how that will affect the war, as floods and thick mud will hamper movement. My guess is that it will be advantageous for the ethnic armed groups, who will be more used to the conditions.

[totheletterofthelawalleged]

Myanmar is not only a coupe but it's also a ruse for a mining operation. It's not just a coincidence that all the places that got burned and bombed are saturated with precious metals. Trust me I have my own copy of the mining maps and I've been investigating this situation for years 😮😮😮😮

[darrellernst]

I worked with a young 30 year old man from Miramar.
When he was 10 his parents heard there was commotion in the city and they went to see what was going on and he seen soldiers shooting protesters and throwing them in the river.
Governments can never bring anything but chaos to the world.

[slowsolo]

You don't call them Myanmar government. They're dictatorship

[drsawlwin]

Indeed the country is very peaceful, because of lack of unity, now people suffer a lot of struggles

[Bookodus]

Prayer and well wishes from Bangladesh

[abhiframes]

Indian Government will support the democratic revolution for people of Myanmar.we are with People of Myanmar

[livebetter]

You, The Media, should watch Arakan Army.AA is the key palyer in this revolution.80% of Junta's control area is already recaptured by indigenous Armed group, AA, .Sooner or later Arakan Army is able to control the whole state of Rakhine.

[bobjack]

Who is funding Myanmar war machine ? US 1000% US supply money, foods, weapons, transportation unlimited supply to US proxy war.

[David]

It’s wrong when you say myanmar government, they are dictators, not government, real government who won 81% votes are in prison, so fix your article AJ

[ahmadashraf]

What the ? More wars? Just... stop already.

Just live in peace together, why discriminate to the point of killing.

[knotingspecific]

Pls dont use the Term Rebel they were the Ethnic Democratic Forces at First place Myanmar is already a Democratic Country when this part of the Military Rebelled Executed A Coup si tgis Military group are at first turns into a Rebel

[KamKam-xlrw]

No matter what happens Myanmar will break up with each.groups control their territory and wars will surely continue for a long time