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Khun Nan Nan felt a sense of relief as the cadets finished an exhausting day of training. Dozens of men, dressed in green and black army fatigues, were spread out across a large dirt field deep in the foothills of eastern Myanmar’s Kayah State (also called Karenni State). The cadets were training to join an elite group of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), an ethnic armed organisation (EAO) fighting the Myanmar military.
