Myanmar, also called Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar became a British colony in the 19th century. After a brief Japa-nese occupation, Myanmar was reconquered by the Allies and gained independence in 1948. Following a coup d'état in 1962, it became a military dictator-ship under the Burma Socialist Programme Party .

For most of its independent years, Myanmar has been struggling with ethnic conflicts and its myriad ethnic groups have been involved in one of the world's longest-running ongoing civil wars. In 2011, the military junta was officially dissolved following a 2010 general election, and a nominally civilian government was installed. Along with the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and political prisoners, another successful elections was held in 2015 in which the Na-tional League for Democracy won the majority of votes. In the 2020 Myanmar general election, Aung San Suu Kyi's party won the majority in both houses for the second consecutive term.

Before the military staged the coup, Myanmar was heading for a better country. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party was about to take power for the second consecutive term and everyone was in a positive mood and hoped for a brighter future. Just when everything was heading for a change for the better, the Burmese military (Tatmadaw) seized power in a coup d'état on the February 1, 2021 and reversed all the positive changes.

Weeks after the coup, people took to the streets to protest against the takeover of power and demanded to return the power to the democratically-elected government. As the protest gained momentum, the mil-itary could not control it but still refused to submit to the demand of the people. They, then, started to shoot to kill and tortured some to death in order to terrorize the public and bring the protest to an end.

As the military became more and more brutal in their killings, arresting and as there was no sign of their giving in to the demand of the people, the young people decided to take up arms and fight back. Therefore, a number of them fled to the jungle and took military training under the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs). From April 2021, young people began to form themselves into People Defense Force to protect and defend the lives, properties, and livelihoods of the peo-ple. Eventually, these young people, using their home-made guns and traditional hunting guns, fought back the military and soon the fighting spread to the whole country. As time wore on, these young people were able to buy assault rifles and other heavy weapons to combat the junta forces.

Many young people and Ethnic Armed Organizations began to join forces to bring down the dictator-ship by weapons while democratically-elected Members of Parliament formed a government, namely, National Unity Government and is now seeking diplomatic recognition from international communities.