Synopsis
Simon visits Mandalay and travels to a conflict zone to meet a rebel army who have been fighting the Burmese military for decades.
- Programme: Burma with Simon Reeve
- Episode: 2
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2018
- Geography
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