No Alternative

"Has any country offered to protect the citizens of Myanmar, who are not armed, who have nothing, who are peacefully protesting? No one! If we’d had an alternative that would not be this costly, this challenging, we would have happily embraced it. The armed resistance is the only means left for us to try."

I'll be honest, I learned more, personally speaking, from this interview than any other I've done post-coup. Lynn not only demystifies the formation of the PDF and UG networks, but he also describes in heartbreaking terms how a life-long pacifist-- and someone whose job it was to work for decades on Myanmar's complicated peace process-- suddenly realized that an armed resistance was the only remaining possibility to avoid entire military domination and thereby plunge his country back into darkness. For anyone interested in understanding what has been happening in the Golden Land, this is essential listening.