An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China.
Also, yeesh, that headline… Like, I’m sure if people wanted to do a deep dive into this topic the ethnic ties and traditions that are shared by these different rebel groups are important to understanding them and what’s going on here, but would it have killed the AP to describe them as “pro-democracy guerillas” in the headline instead of saving that one for the article and going with “armed ethnic alliances”? You start telling Americans about armed ethnic alliances and they’ll be demanding airstrikes before you’ve finished your sentence.
Hear hear, fuck military dictatorships.
Also, yeesh, that headline… Like, I’m sure if people wanted to do a deep dive into this topic the ethnic ties and traditions that are shared by these different rebel groups are important to understanding them and what’s going on here, but would it have killed the AP to describe them as “pro-democracy guerillas” in the headline instead of saving that one for the article and going with “armed ethnic alliances”? You start telling Americans about armed ethnic alliances and they’ll be demanding airstrikes before you’ve finished your sentence.