A weakening Myanmar junta lashed out brutally in 2024, with civilians bearing much of the brunt as the regime targeted villagers and civilian infrastructure with relentless airstrikes across the expanding areas over which it has lost control. Continued bold offensives by ethnic armies and their People’s Defense Force allies saw almost the whole of northern Shan State as well as Rakhine State seized from the junta, which resorted to refilling its increasingly depleted ranks with barely trained conscripts drafted under its newly enforced mandatory military service law.
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