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How the most fractured nation on Earth is coming together to overthrow a Goliath (www.abc.net.au)
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Peace has long been elusive in Myanmar.

The country has been mired in conflict since it gained independence from Britain in 1948, but it has been gripped by an increasingly savage civil war for the past four years.

A military junta seized power in an audacious coup in 2021. Since then, at least 60,000 people have been killed, 27,400 detained for opposing the junta, and 3.3 million driven from their homes.

But many in Myanmar are also fighting back.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

if we could just stop murdering innocent civilians for like 2 seconds we could colonise the stars

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wish I could believe this, but the nearest star is 4.25 light years away. Nonetheless, would be nice to stop killing ppl for fucking nothing.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

even at sub light speeds the galaxy is a lot smaller than you might think

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

cool. now think of what happens to a human that travels at relativistic speed.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago

The speed at which we could populate the entire galaxy at sub relativistic speeds is also kinda mind boggling and a big reason the Fermi paradox is so strong.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Why do we have to colonise anything?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 4 days ago

Colonialism has a bad name now because we didn't stop doing it once all the empty land was gone; but we didn't just grow out of the dirt, at some point someone colonised the planet and it was a good thing for most of us.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 days ago

That's what life does?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Got to analyse it first.