MANDALAY, Myanmar — On the outskirts of Mandalay, nervous Myanmar soldiers man a checkpoint just kilometers away from rebels who have set their sights on the former royal capital of 1.5 million people.
Ethnic minority rebels and 'People's Defense Forces' battling to overturn the junta's Feb. 1, 2021 coup are riding the wave of a huge offensive launched a year ago on Sunday in the hills of neighboring Shan state.Weeks ago, residents could hear the sounds of clashes along the road that leads out of the Southeast Asian country's second-largest city.
'Where can we go if there is war in Mandalay? We just have to die here.'China cardThe sustained success of 'Operation 1027' has buoyed the dozens of PDF groups that sprung up to fight the military, whose coup plunged the country into more than three years of brutal civil war.But replicating its advances in the central plains around Mandalay will prove a challenge, independent Myanmar analyst David Mathieson told AFP.
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