In Pictures: The women soldiers of Myanmar's resistance

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

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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.

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