A ray of sunlight as a civil war rage for the injured rebels of Myanmar. Conflict news

Mein Sot, Thailand – Inside an old wooden house in the Thai border city of Mae Sot, the injured revolutionary fighters lie shoulder to shoulder.

Many people are missing legs, hands and weapons. Some have severe head lesions, and others have suffered spinal injuries. Some are blind, and others are unable to walk.

These young fighters have been injured by landmines, rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and sniper fire, burning with flames dropped by warfare aircraft and scared of pellets.

He has traveled to this border city from neighboring Myanmar through forests, seeking medical attention to injuries in an acute citizen struggle that is one of the longest and longest at the globally.

Nevertheless the location of their recovery – Sunshine Care Center – does not surround employees by a white -walled hospital equipped with sophisticated medical devices and employees by worthy surgeons.

Instead, the approximate 140 war-western fighters in this center are recovering in underdeveloped conditions, mostly resting in wood and steel cots that are arranged under a traditional Thai Stillted House.

They are taken care of by volunteers, who have run away from Myanmar themselves.

Unable to continue the fight, most of the Myanmar army cannot return home due to fear of violent vengeance, whose coup they have been opposing for four years.

On 1 February 2021, the army removed the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which ignited an unprecedented rebellion against military rule in the country of 54 million people.

The coup – and violent rifts on peaceful protests, after which – is said to have been said to be the demographic of the youth born between Jade, 1997 and 2012 to take up arms.

The generation went into forests and highlands to join ethnic armed groups and newly formed citizen defense militia – known as People’s Defense Forces (PDF) – as well as participated in support roles such as nursing injured fighters.

One of those involved in the battle was Koa Khant, who had blown his hand on the wrist and lost his left eye when an unexplained RPG rocket was fired by military forces.

Resistance fighters often collect bombs and rockets that fail to explode because there is a shortage of adequate weapons and ammunition in their army, Khant told Al Jazira, although the rocket exploded on the occasion, the rocket exploded on the occasion, Which caused serious injuries.

“When the RPG (military) fell from the side, I went to pick it up, and it just exploded,” he said. “Sometimes when RPG falls, they do not explode. My wrist was injured and my eyes were injured with gunpowder.”

Prior to military acquisition, Khant was a chef in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, specializing in European cuisine. After the pro -democracy was involved in protest against Street and experienced violent military cracks, he fled to Karen state on the border of Thailand to join PDF fighters.

He received some training and soon found himself on the lines of the front, where in January 2022, he suffered injuries, partially disabled.

Trafficking across the border and treated in Thai hospitals, Koe Khant came to the Sunshine Care Center again to recover, and now he helps to run day-to-day activities of the center.

During the recovery, he was offered an artificial hand, but said that Al Jazira said that there were other employees who were more and more needed.

“There are people who are in need, much more than me,” he said.

“It doesn’t seem that I have no hand.”