New recruits of the People's defense force (PDF) - the central armed organization uniting the country's various ethnic groups - receive their equipments after weeks of training in a secret rebel camp in eastern Myanmar.
Fighters from the ‘Tiger Battalion’ enter the village of Htee K'pler in April 2024, after several weeks of intense fighting to take control of the town. Inside, the Myanmar military maintain a fortified position and fire mortars from a hill.
Yeyint, A young rebel fighter, takes a salutary break during an advance through the jungle, in April 2024.
Young ones fled the ongoing war in central Myanmar for the relative safety of the Thai border. They play with wooden guns in a refugee camp. Along the border, many of them remain subject to trafficking.
A commander of the Kawthoolei liberation army (KTLA), aN ethnic armed group, cleans his weapon in a combat outpost.
A fighter carries wooden training rifles to a training camp through the jungle.
A 17-year-old fighter of the KTLA.
New recruits of the PDF receive their equipments after weeks of training in a secret rebel camp in eastern Myanmar.
Soldiers from the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's regular army, are taken prisoner by KTLA rebels in one of their jungle camps. For several months, they were crammed into this small wooden cage that didn't even allow them to stand upright. They were freed on January 31, 2023, the "Karen revolution day".
A Rebel Fighter patrols near a jungle camp of HIS armed organization.
A REBEL fighter Rests in a jungle camp of HIS armed organization.
A young REBEL in a Buddhist temple converted into an outpost in an abandoned village, on a frontline, in April 2024.
Young insurgents charge their phones and walkie-talkies during a break in a resistance rear base. Electricity supplied by generators is extremely rare in the region.
A moment of rest on a frontline in southern Myanmar, in April 2024.
The fighters have been trying to retake a village from the Burmese army for 28 days. Some of them contracted malaria.
KTLA commanders prepare an assault on a Military position. According to Karen chiefs, tattoos protect against enemy bullets.
A 13-year-old child soldier in the ranks of an armed ethnic group in eastern Myanmar. Most of the country's armed ethnic organisations claim not to recruit minors.
Below: Rebel fighters on the front line in the town of Moe Bye, in April 2025.
A rebel commander dives to the ground after hearing a sniper shot on the front line in Moe Bye, Shan State, in April 2025.
Saint-Mother-of-God Cathedral, where fighting broke out between pro-democracy rebels and the military junta on the Moe Bye front line, April 7, 2025.
The interior of the cathedral.
A Doctor at Luke Hospital clean the wound of a rebel fighter who sustained a torn left leg during clashes with the military junta on April 7, 2025.
Little Margaret, 14, and her younger brother Siate, 9, were injured during a military junta bombing on February 21, 2025, before being treated at O1 Hospital on April 6, 2025. O1 Hospital is a rebel-controlled facility that has been bombed multiple times by the Burmese army.
Surgery on a rebel fighter wounded in the foot by shell fragments at Luker Hospital on April 7, 2025. Due to a lack of anaesthetics, his comrades must hold him still despite the pain.
Sweta Ning, 19, a rebel fighter with the PDF, was injured in the foot after stepping on a mine before being treated at O1 Hospital on April 6, 2025.
Dr. Myo Khant Ko Ko, a neurosurgeon at Luke Hospital, examines the X-ray of one of his patients on April 7, 2025. The young doctor joined the resistance at the end of his medical studies and suddenly found himself treating war injuries overnight.
A rebel fighter Looks at a 100-metre-deep crater created by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar on April 8, 2025. This is the worst natural disaster the country has experienced in a century.
Resistance routes designed to avoid surveillance by the military junta’s drones and aircraft.
On the Salween River.
Chicken bone reading ritual during the Kay Htoe Boe festival in a tribal village in the rebel-controlled Demoso region on April 8, 2025. This ritual is used to foresee politics, weather, and other significant events for the year ahead.
Nuka, 11, works to harvest poppy seeds to help her family in the opium fields of Shan State, on 6th April 2025.
Myanmar is the world's leading opium producer, ahead of Afghanistan.
