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As we watch young protesters become a guerrilla army with just one firearm between them, this startling film lays out the brutality of last year’s military coup. This is not just television – it is evidence for a future war crimes trialHow does a civil war happen? How do businesspeople, office workers and students morph into peaceful demonstrators, then rioters, then enemies of the state and internal exiles before finally becoming armed resistance fighters?While we have been preoccupied with Covid and the horrors of Ukraine, this process has been playing out in Myanmar, a country that briefly opened the door to partial democracy under Aung San Suu Kyi before a military junta slammed it shut again. Seeing it documented in this film is heartbreaking and revelatory. Continue reading...