Burma: can ethnic groups unite against the junta?

Protesters three fingers raised during a demonstration against the military coup, east of Karen state in Burma, an area under KNU control, on April 22, 2021. © AFP / KNU DOOPLAYA DISTRICT

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

Almost four months after the coup, the toll of the repression carried out by the military in power exceeds 800 dead.

Faced with the junta, several ethnic groups have taken up arms again in recent weeks and are thus participating in the protest.

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In a Burma which displays one of the greatest ethnic diversity in the world, is union possible?

What weight against the junta?

Will these minorities shape the Burma of tomorrow?

With our guest

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

, CNRS research anthropologist and member of the South-East Asia center.

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