Frontier
MYANMARFriday, March 29, 2019
By EMILY FISHBEIN | FRONTIER
CSO participants from Shan State pose in front of the hall in Kachin National Manaw Park before the forum. (Emily Fishbein | Frontier)
MYITKYINA — Ko Thurain Tun, 21, and a group of four friends dream of founding an organisation to provide humanitarian relief, education, and skills programmes for conflict-affected communities in their home town of Ponnagyun in Rakhine State.
Yet, with the project stalled because of a lack of funding and escalating conflict between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army in Rakhine, Thurain Tun boarded a bus for a four-day journey to the Kachin State capital Myitkyina to attend a forum on peace.