This GoPro style footage depicts anti-junta fighters of Myanmar’s People’s Defense Force attacking a police station in Salingyi, in the Sagaing region of Myanmar.

The footage begins with a close-up of a PDF insurgent going full spray-and-pray with an AK-pattern rifle. At 0:16 and 0:51, the cameraman focuses on an RPG that the squad brought with them. This is a recurring theme in the footage released by PDF fighters- the RPG seems to be the belle of the ball, and they want the world, and particularly the government forces, to know they have them. At 01:42, a PDF fighter crosses the street and uses a tree for cover as he fires on police positions down the road. At 02:11, the footage appears to cut to that of a different cameraman, who follows the same path.

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