A bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg324den6po

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metaStatic@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

"professional army surrenders to the civilians they stepped on"

Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Aren't they drastically outnumbered?

atro_city@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

Does that change the initial message? Do you think a dictator's army maintains power by having more military than civilians?

kiwifruit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

At 43 sec into the video, was that an MG42?

wwaxen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

MG3, I think. Basically an MG42 firing NATO ammunition.