Fearing Myanmar border battles, Thai children taught to take cover

Thai border guards walk a they patrol at Myanmar border in Mae Sot, Thailand March 18, 2021. - Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters): Thai army rangers Thailand's northwest border have been training children to duck, crawl and take cover, readying them for a spillover of fighting if conflict between Myanmar troops and ethnic armies resumes.

Thai elementary school students were performing evacuation drills late last week and preparing them for clashes as opposition mounts against Myanmar's military in the wake of its Feb. 1 coup and use of deadly forces against demonstrators.