Oliver Conway
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Hidden deep under forest cover in Myanmar's Karen State is a field hospital, a jumble of bamboo and wooden buildings that treats resistance fighters injured in their battles to set Myanmar free from military rule.
So we're in the operating theatre.
It's running off solar power and generator.
It is quite hot in here.
Jazoo is on the table, still awake.
Jazoo has a long gash at the top of his leg.
They're trying to save his leg, which was injured as a result of him stepping on a landmine.
He was on his way back from a military assault.
As they turn him over, you can see that the back of his heel is all gone.
It's just raw flesh.
People sustain injuries from landmines every single day here.
Dr Song is the surgeon here.
They say they carry out operations every day in this operating theatre.
It never stops in terms of casualties.
There were days during the five years that I had been here when I couldn't describe the sorrow with words anymore.
There's not just bombing, later kamikaze drones and artillery as well.
What do you say to young people in Yangon and Mandalay today who say, ah, the coup was five years ago, this is all over?
If young people choose not to oppose the dictatorship now, then this cycle of revolution and resistance in our country will just continue, repeating itself endlessly.
There's about 10 rebel militia fighters who are heading to a base called Papon.
Now, they have that hunter base surrounded, but it's heavily armed.