Frontline special report: Myanmar rebels takeon army in brutal civil war | BBC News

Myanmar is in the grip of a civil war, largely forgottenby the outside world, which has left thousands ofpeople dead and displaced more than two million from their homes.

Rebel forces are fighting a bloody campaign againstthe military regime which seized control of the countryin 2021, when army generals overthrew the electedgovernment of Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Mass protests at the crushing of democracy werebrutally put down. Many people took up armedresistance to the regime and in October 2023 severalrebel groups united to form a single national insurgency.

Recently the rebels have been making big territorialgains. The fighters, among them a group known asthe KNDF, are now presenting Myanmar's military withthe biggest threat to its rule since it seized power.

Clive Myrie presents a BBC News at Ten specialfrontline report by Quentin Sommerville andcamera-journalist Darren Conway.