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Women of the MDY-PDF explain their role in Myanmar’s armed resistance. Comprising around 10% of the Mandalay Region-based resistance group’s membership, women rarely go into combat but regularly serve as administrators, trainers, medics, and drone operators. Not far behind front lines on one of Myanmar’s several battlefronts, detachments of women in fatigues remain vigilant and ready to fulfil, on command, the essential duties assigned to them.

Each has a different function, but all share the same fundamental responsibility: providing the aid and support that makes it possible for their comrades to win on the battlefield.

Sandar, one of first recruits to complete basic military training in late 2021, now administrative duties as part of Mandalay People’s Defence Force (MDY-PDF), a group of anti-junta resistance fighters under the command of the publicly mandated National Unity Govt. As armed resistance continues to gain against the military junta, more women are taking up roles within independent resistance units throughout. 
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