Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...

Rum and coke and automatic rifles: Myanmar’s Gen Z guerrillas Young soldiers have buoyed the country’s fight for freedom, but at great cost.

Jane belongs to the Chin Rifles, which is a breakaway faction of the Kalay PDF. She is one of the female participants in the resistance movement – women who left their homes to stay in the camps ...

Thura, an officer with the PDF in Sagaing, the northwest Myanmar region where Tamu is too, said, “The [PKP cadres] are not combat trained, or even armed enough to imagine taking on a ...

Reh Du told of worrying that if Aung San Suu Kyi was released, she might call off the uprising and the PDF’s armed operations. “In Myanmar, the cult of personality is very strong,” he says.

Despite the Myanmar military's critical role in the country's affairs, its exact size is unknown. Most observers estimate at the time of the coup it was around 300,000 but now is much lower.

The Myanmar military is suffering defections from its forces and is finding it hard to recruit. In exclusive interviews, newly-defected soldiers tell the BBC that the junta, who seized power in a ...