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Myanmar, January is month of victory. Seventy-six years ago, in 1948, Aung San Mara, the main coordinator of Myanmar's anti-colonial struggle, died days before independence. But the people of Burma—the Bamars, Kachins, Karens, Chins—did not lose hope. That January, they were dreaming of building a pluralistic federal state.

Seventy-six Januaries have come and gone, & much has changed, but dream remains unfulfilled. Even after all these years, January is reminding us of that very dream. The state has a new name, Myanmar, but old revolutionary "Burma," with arms in hand returned to strive for cause still too early to say when this dream will be fulfilled, but it's safe to say that the journey has already begun. Amid all this pointing out Myanmar is experiencing this historic juncture with no help from its neighbours, and how these countries will act still remains a critical question—one that may very well affect this country's future.

The struggle though guerilla warfare the last century, especially the 60s through 80s, was era of achieving liberation & political freedom through guerilla warfare. The century began with a epidemic lost democracies. Currently, there's perhaps only a handful of pockets where political guerilla warfare active in the world. Hamas is certainly at the frontlines in the Middle East, but in Asia, Myanmar is now the cradle of similar struggles. Hamas is conducting urban guerilla warfare, but the revolution in Myanmar has gone back to the traditional form, guerilla operations from the forests. Hamas' battlefield is a 41-kilometre stretch of land, while Bamars, Kachins, Karens and Chins are fighting all over Myanmar's hundreds of thousands of square kilometres. 

Both battlegrounds are worthy of attention from military experts; both have their political reverberations increasingly spilling out of their borders.
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