Law is learning to walk again, but he has no regrets about joining the People's Defence Force, fighting against Myanmar's military regime since he was 16.
He barely survived the sniper shots, and steel implants now hold together his spine. At 18, Law has been a People's Defence Force resistance fighter against Myanmar's military regime for two years. The teenager had his stomach punctured by bullets when the country's army tried to seize one of the group's bases. "I was shot by a sniper from behind. After I was shot once in my stomach, I could still walk," Law told SBS News.
More than 15,000 fatalities have been recorded in Myanmar between July 2022 and July 2023, second only to Ukraine. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced and over 60,000 civilian structures destroyed by the war, according to a June report by the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner. The National Unity Government , Myanmar’s parallel government in exile has called on Australia to assert its influence on its Southeast Asian neighbours.
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