The junta itself deeply incorporates Buddhist destiny into their ideology, with the country's Buddhist leadership collaborating heavily with the military.
In the regime's religious propaganda, the rebels are atheist leftists who joined the religious minorities (Christians, Muslims) and the ethnic minorities to destroy the holy Buddhist Bamar led by Myanmar.
It's a bit of a hit with the rural Bamar people, and semi-led to the creation of the modern Paisavati militias, which are deeply religious and nationalistic rural folk, which the local Buddhist leaders have embraced to "protect their villages".