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‘I stopped counting after three’: the ‘girl sniper’ fighting on the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war
Guardian, 31 March 2025 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 […]
Life in Myanmar’s resistance-held areas
Nikkei Asia, 18 August 2024 TANINTHARYI TOWNSHIP, Myanmar — The fading banner of Aung San Suu Kyi has seen better days. Riddled with bullet holes, it hangs outside the office of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy in Le Thit, a half-abandoned village on the banks of the Tanintharyi River in southern Myanmar. The NLD office […]
Myanmar’s conscription plan backfires as young people flee to join rebel army
The Telegraph, 16 April 2024 Sitting on flimsy plastic chairs in an old town hall with holes in the roof and flaking paint on the walls, a dozen young people wait patiently for their turn to join Myanmar’s rebel army. As they kill time, they compare notes about the junta-controlled cities and villages they have come from. […]
Innovative prostheses offer hope on Thai-Myanmar borde
Nikkei Asian Review, 14 April 2024 In a small workshop in western Thailand, Aung Tin Tun puts the finishing touches to a plastic hoop created by a 3D printer. Filing a stubborn barb of filament, he explains that the hoop will be the grip of a prosthesis that can be attached to a garden hoe, […]
Myanmar’s border midwives deliver hope to refugees
Nikkei Asian Review, 12 April 2023 Mizoram, India — A sudden chill stirred three pregnant refugees as the sun disappeared behind the mountains of Mizoram state, on India’s northeastern border with Myanmar. Sitting outside their makeshift home, a tarpaulin tunnel sheltering 160 people, Then Nun Mawi said she had suffered cramps so bad that she […]
‘All I can do is pray’: the Ukrainian women going home despite the danger
Guardian, 20 April 2021 To be with children, to care for elderly relatives, to find work: civilians tell why they are leaving safe countries for a war zone As the war crept closer to Odesa, Ann heeded the pleas of her friends abroad and fled to Holland. A month later, as she tried to calm […]
‘The darkest days are coming’: Myanmar’s journalists suffer at hands of junta
Guardian, 7 June 2021 Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to survive As a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster, 37, contemplated the brooding skies near a terminal window at Yangon […]
‘People were going crazy’: Myanmar detainees recount military’s cruelty
Guardian, 31 March 2021 Freed protesters and a journalist detained by the junta describe beatings and squalid conditions Released from detention in Myanmar, protesters and journalists have described beatings, squalid conditions and cruelty under the military dictatorship that is opposed by most of the population. Hnin, 23, was arrested along with 400 other young people in […]
Fear turns to fury in Myanmar as children shot by military
Guardian, 28 March 2021 From soldiers randomly shooting passersby in the street to imminent economic collapse, anxieties have been plentiful in Myanmar since its military seized power on 1 February. But unease was surging ahead of Armed Forces Day on Saturday when the military was expected to meet protesters with a brutal crackdown. These expectations were more […]
Reporting from Myanmar: ‘The future has never been darker’
Guardian, 15 March 2021 Two journalists reflect on the danger, fear and uncertainty that now characterise life in the country – and the risks people are taking to access information ‘It is strange to write about joy amid the daily killings’ It started with people nervously waiting outside a KFC for the first brave activists […]
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