Fuelling Myanmar’s civil war: Russia behind the junta’s air power - BBC World Service Documentaries

Russia is supplying Myanmar's military with advanced fighter jets and training their pilots how to use them in a war against their own people.

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More than two years on from the coup in which the military retook power, it is facing a countrywide armed uprising and its troops are struggling to hold ground and recruit foot-soldiers. So, strategy is turning increasingly to the air with devastating consequences.

We follow those fighting back from the ground and in the air, and meet defectors with exclusive insight into the strategy and psychology behind those operating the military's deadly air machines.

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Reporter Rebecca Henschke
Produced and Directed by Ko Ko Aung, Rebecca Henschke and Charlotte Attwood

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