For seven days, insurgent fighter Khant and his comrades held the road as Myanmar’s army pounded their positions with artillery and drone strikes.

Khant is a veteran of quite a few battles in opposition to Myanmar’s junta because it seized energy in a 2021 coup, however he had seen nothing just like the depth of the preventing in central Myanmar in October.

The strikes had been adopted by wave after wave of infantry, in accordance with Khant and Htike, a fellow insurgent who was additionally current on the battle for Pazun Myaung, a village roughly midway between Myanmar’s largest metropolis and its political capital.