Anti-Government Guerrilla War in Myanmar

KAYAH STATE KARENNI, MYANMAR - 2023/02/15: A soldier from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) assisting the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) is walking in a village. The Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) was created in May 2021, a few months after the coup perpetrated by the Burmese military. The KNDF, mostly constituted of local young civilians, claims to have a force of 7,500 men and women and is divided in 21 battalions. The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) is the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), an ethnic Karen movement created in 1947, who is generally considered as the "oldest guerrilla movement in the world". (Photo by Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images)