Kachin State
Even with the latest tragedy on Oct 23, Hpakant residents continued to express their opposition to the coup regime.
“I want to uproot the dictatorship,” he told me. “I do not want to pass on this legacy to future generations."
Farmers’ lives have always been difficult, but they have worsened since the coup and incomes have halved, this writer says.
"When the military started arresting politicians and journalists, l felt really insecure and stopped sleeping, something I’m still experiencing."
'They are arresting journalists. If they don’t find our reporters, they arrest their parents or their children instead.'
This 25-year-old Kachin protester in Myitkyina hoped to study abroad this year, but now his priority is to protest the coup.
A 27-year-old in Myitkyina, Kachin State tells the Kite Tales about her hopes and fears for the protests.
The inscrutable waters of Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State are stirred with ancient myth
The path to pop stardom is particularly precarious in Myanmar. But that's not going to deter Naw Rain from following his dreams
Ah Hkawn is still in her thirties, but her story is one of many lives.
Making fish curry on the banks of Indawgyi Lake
Tragedy has stalked Ja Khun Ya's life since she fled fighting between the army and Kachin rebels five years ago
