Everything is not as it seems in Myanmar. The story we get through the media and politicians, is of a country where one side is fighting for democracy and the other is a dictatorship. It is not this simple.

The United States has been backing and often leading armed militants and fake “human rights” groups in Myanmar for decades.

This video explores the British colonial roots of Myanmar’s current ethnic armed groups, the futility of their struggle, how it serves the same divide and rule methodology used by the British generations ago.

Video from The New Atlas