This Go-Pro style footage depicts Anti-Junta forces attacking a police station in Thaton, Myanmar.

This video is from the perspective of an Anti-Junta fighter in Myanmar, seen here in the passenger seat of a Toyota, and armed with a folding-stock, AK-pattern rifle. He and several others dismount at 0:09 seconds, choosing to leave behind his flip-flops/slides/sandals/thongs (depending on your local vernacular). He advances alongside the other fighters to the entrance of a building clearly marked as a Myanmar Police Force station. They fire several rounds into the building. At 0:52, a fighter with what appears to be an underslung grenade launcher fires into the building, and again at 01:00. At 1:06 another grenadier, using a stand-alone launcher, takes his place. He fires, then is replaced by the original grenadier, who resumes firing with his rifle. At 01:23, the rifleman with the camera opens fire, firing several rounds. The squad then retreats to the Toyota at 01:33, after which at 01:44, the driver starts the vehicle and they depart.

As is typical of this conflict, there's an interesting variety of weapon platforms at work here, in various states of age and repair. Plate carriers also may seem out of place with flip-flops and bare feet, but war and insurgencies are no stranger to such dichotomies, particularly in Southeast Asia.

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