war
"I fear for my physical security. But I don’t want to give up my journalistic work."
Whenever I feel down, I would revive my spirits by reminding myself of people who were resisting the dictatorship in various ways.
This war transformed our lives and it reshaped our city. (The people) dug trenches throughout the city and in the countryside. The idea was that...
If I’m out and about and witness something, I fear I would still be arrested even if I turned back just for being in the vicinity.
The CDM campaign has now been going on for a year and a half and continues to be strong and effective. But there is also sadness and suffering.
I guess we’ll have some stories to tell the children as they grow up.
A Kayah journalist describes the night they had to run away, again, to avoid heavy fighting between the military junta and local resistant forces
Descended from Gurkha fighters, DR Sharma fought against the British in WWII, the first of many battles for the soldier-turned-English teacher
A child of conflict, Ko Lay could recognise the drum beat of artillery shells before he turned ten, memories that reverberate through his poetry