Resistance Diaries: Life after the Myanmar coup
I think of my friends who used to come here. I miss them and wonder when I will see them again
When I appeared on the wanted list, I knew I had to escape. There is still a lot to do from outside the prison walls
A former journalist who is now exiled looks back at the days of mass protests followed by mass arrests last year
Farmers’ lives have always been difficult, but they have worsened since the coup and incomes have halved, this writer says.
The bombings have not yet reached the city where we are, but psychological insecurity and COVID-19 are already here.
We saw military vans full of armed soldiers, guns at the ready
"The coup is not just a problem for one political party. It is a national issue.... So I joined the Spring Revolution."
On the one-year anniversary of the coup, I was away from my family - I had to escape and leave my two children behind
"If there is any chance for us to bring our hopes and dreams for our country to fruition, we need to find something other than ghosts to unite us."
A politically active Shan-Karen professional looks back on the day she left Myanmar, not knowing when she will see her home again
Despite the grim events of the past 12 months, an exiled reporter who had to flee Myanmar remains hopeful
"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.
