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'I'm A Mandalay Girl': Teenage Soldier Fights On Myanmar's Front Lines

Hundreds of women train, live and fight alongside men in Myanmar's "People's Defence Forces" (Credit: AFP)

An 18-year-old recruit in one of Myanmar's pro-democracy fighting units prepares to launch a drone strike on junta troops, driven by anger and her mother's call for revolution.

Moe Moe is one of hundreds of women training, living and fighting alongside men in the "People's Defence Forces", upending gender norms in the mostly Buddhist country.

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