Resistance Diaries: Life after the Myanmar coup
"When the military started arresting politicians and journalists, l felt really insecure and stopped sleeping, something I’m still experiencing."
There are security forces with guns on the streets near our home. I don’t feel safe even when I am indoors
We went from staying at home waiting for Covid to be over, to staying at home because our lives were not secure anymore.
We at the Kites Tales believe it is more important than ever to give a voice to ordinary people
A distratrous combination of coup, COVID-19 and climate change threatens local farming communities in Myanmar's Dry Zone
The military coup and its aftermath has devastated the economy and rural producers have increasingly found that they are virtually cut off
'They are arresting journalists. If they don’t find our reporters, they arrest their parents or their children instead.'
This 30-year-old Kayin woman in Tanintharyi say the people of the village have only each other to rely on.
A Kayin teacher in Myeik was the first person in her village to take part in CDM, determined not to live under dictatorship again
The prominent display of women's longyis on International Women's Day in a socially conservative country like Myanmar gave Linn "chills"
In the normally vibrant Yangon neighbourhood of Sanchaung, police went door-to-door last week detaining and beating people. This medical student...
Linn and her family hide in the darkness at home as gunshots from soldiers ring out across the city, in a night of terror in Yangon
Linn, 28, is from Myanmar’s Shan State but lives and works in Yangon. This is her resistance diary.
An ethnic environmental lawyer taking part in protests in Yangon hopes this can be an opportunity to heal the country’s divisions and create a...
On one of the bloodiest days since the military seized power, a 39-year-old teacher in Hpa An explains why she refuses to work under the junta
A 24-year-old Rohingya student has had apologies from some fellow Burmese protesters for the treatment of the Rohingya but still feels nervous.
A medical specialist in Yangon tells The Kite Tales of the agonising decision to leave their patients to join the civil disobedience movement (CDM)
This 25-year-old Kachin protester in Myitkyina hoped to study abroad this year, but now his priority is to protest the coup.
Born in Kachin but raised in Yangon, this 23-year-old says the hurt felt across Myanmar echoes the pain caused by the army in minority areas
A government worker explains why she joined the civil disobedience movement and says there is an intergenerational struggle against the military
A 27-year-old in Myitkyina, Kachin State tells the Kite Tales about her hopes and fears for the protests.
