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From Pekon to the Frontline: Why Burma’s Youth Took Up Arms

by Admin | Sep 26, 2025 | Daily News

Source: Mizzima | By Antonio Graceffo

Most of her battalion is made up of people from Pekon in Shan State who joined because they could not accept the behavior of the Myanmar military junta and what it did to the people.

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