The New York Tmes
By Hannah Beech
May 8, 2024
In Myanmar, poets, doctors and lawyers have traded life in the cities for jungle warfare.

In southern Karenni, Myanmar.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
A people take to arms and fight for democracy. A military terrorizes civilians with airstrikes and land mines. Tens of thousands are killed. Millions are displaced.
Yet it is all happening almost completely out of view.