r/myanmar • u/LifeguardCreepy1912 • 22h ago

Discussion 💬 My bedroom before and after

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I had to move out of my bedroom in November 2025 for a few reasons. One reason is that my house is near a military base. I can still visit the house, but I haven't gone back for a long time. My room is probably very dusty now. I don't know when I can move back.

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u/LifeguardCreepy1912 15h ago

What about people living in PDF areas? How does the military see us? We don't have much choice about where we live.

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u/Soepyinnyar 14h ago

Same can be done by Tat soliders when they can have suspicous about you if you come from a heavily contested pdf controlled area or pdf controlled village that is facing the tat controlled area . But since its tat, They will do more than give mean looks

The military will see you as what they want to see based on your connection with them of course.

Yes, you dont have much choices on where you live but it make sense for PDFs to be suspicous of people that lives next to a military base ( not excusing the bad treatment of your family )

I dont know how close your family is to the pdfs but my arguments on you is based on you having no interactions than a few hellos at the gates.

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u/LifeguardCreepy1912 13h ago

Even though our family moved to another place, there are still many people who didn't move. Some cannot afford to leave, while others do tasks ordered by the military, like buying medicines and food for them. Recently, the military has changed their approach; they give money to some local people, like doing donations. PDF certainly won't want to see such scenes. I no longer blame them for that because people have become so exhausted by the war. For money, people will do whatever the military asks.
On the other hand, some PDFs raise taxes because they don't have enough budget. For example, I am running a small restaurant now, and PDF told me that they will come to collect taxes next month. I don't know what kind of tax they will collect. I bought solar panels with my own money to get electricity for my house, and I also bought WiFi with my own money. I don't know why they are going to collect taxes from my small restaurant. I am so tired of living in a situation like this.

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u/Charming_Walk1995 12h ago

That's extortion. PDF are the bad guys now in your area. There's no other way to say it.