Members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan state on March 8, 2023. AFP PHOTO
Members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan state on March 8, 2023. AFP PHOTO
Members of ethnic rebel group Ta'ang National Liberation Army take part in a training exercise at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar's northern Shan state on March 8, 2023. AFP PHOTO

NAMHSAN, Myanmar: At dusk in northern Myanmar, fighters from the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) patrol their frontlines and mark the positions of junta troops, their decadeslong conflict with the military fraught with new risks since the coup two years ago.

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