This handout photo from the Miss Grand International beauty pageant taken in August 2013 and released on May 12, 2021 shows Myanmar contestant Htar Htet Htet waving during the competition in Bangkok. — AFP picYANGON, May 12 — A former Myanmar beauty queen has joined ethnic rebels to take up arms against the country’s military junta, posting photos of herself with an assault rifle.
Fast forward eight years and glitz and glamour is a far cry from the jungle of Myanmar’s border regions controlled by ethnic armed groups. “I will fight back as much as I can. I am ready and prepared to give up everything. I am even ready to pay with my life,” Htar Htet Htet wrote from an unknown border territory.
More than 780 civilians have died as security forces moved to quash mass protests with a brutal crackdown.
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