In Pictures: The women soldiers of Myanmar's resistance

From doctors and teachers to homemakers, hundreds feel compelled to join cause

20231227 women story MAIN
BERRY, Contributing writer

TOKYO -- Angelic Moe, 26, may strike some as an unusual resistance fighter. The one-time schoolteacher left her classroom to become a unit battery commander in the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), a leading anti-military resistance group based in eastern Myanmar's Kayah state.

"Yes, I have been to the front line several times," she said. "I remember one moment of my experience in battle. ... I was just 50 meters away from the [military forces]. Our fighters noticed them and shot them. If they hadn't noticed them, we surely would have all died."

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