Dawna Column troops travel on the Union Highway 8 on April 3. (Mar Naw | Frontier)

Revolutionary road: The fight for Myanmar’s southern highway

A coalition of resistance groups had seized sections of Union Highway 8 in the country’s deep south, but is now struggling to hold on in the face of a major military counter-offensive.

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