Amid Myanmar's ongoing civil war, two women fighters from anti-junta armed resistance group the Urban Revolutionary Front (URF), based in Kayah state, share their personal journeys of resistance since the 2021 coup. Sagawah Aung used to work in the media industry and planned to pursue a master's degree, but after witnessing women being killed during the anti-junta protests, she decided to join the force. Monica, a student, is also determined to fight -- one of very few women soldiers on the frontline.
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00:00I'm going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be an Australian, and I'm going
00:29So now I'm going to talk about what I do for a living.
00:35I've been working in the camp for a year now.
00:38This year I joined the camp because I've been working for the past ten years.
00:43But what do I do when I'm not working?
00:48I mean, I'm the only one who has a job.
00:52I don't have a job.
00:54I'm working to make a living.
00:57When the people of the Tulu tribe are in need,
01:00they come to the village to ask for help with their needs.
01:02If the local people are in need,
01:04the women are given a little help.
01:09If there is no help,
01:10we don't go to the village.
01:13After all,
01:14the people of the tribe are doing everything for us.
01:18If I have bad health,
01:20I would like to ask the village for help.
01:27When I was in the army, I had to take care of my family.
01:44I was so scared, I didn't know what to do.
01:51We don't have a lot of money.
01:54We can't afford to buy a house,
01:56so we live in a small village.
01:58We can buy a house in a village,
02:00but we don't have much money.
02:02We don't have any money to buy a house.
02:04We used to have a house,
02:06but we sold it,
02:08because we didn't have money.
02:10We were poor.
02:12We didn't have anything to buy.
02:14We couldn't afford to buy a house.
02:16The money we had was not enough
02:18I have to find a new job.
02:22I have to find a new job.
02:24If I decide to take a job,
02:27I have to find a job that will allow me to do well,
02:31that I can be proud of.
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