'I stopped counting after three': the 'girl sniper' fighting on the frontline of Myanmar's civil war

Anina is, in many ways, a typical teenager. She loves her boyfriend, cartoons and football - she supports Manchester City. Until recently, TikTok dancing brightened her days. "Any kind of dancing," she says. When the Guardian met her she was about to turn 18 and was on crutches, her ankle twisted during a scramble to escape a Myanmar military airstrike. A soldier of the Chin militia, the four years of civil war against the ruling junta have consumed much of Anina's adolescence. The teenager has been trained as a sniper, in a challenge to both Myanmar's military rule and patriarchal…