Reports from Myanmar: 2010-2012
Producer/Reporter/Director of Photography/Editor
In 2010, when I reported my first story in Myanmar it was ruled by a military junta that had controlled the country since 1962. Civil wars with various ethnic militias were breaking out and the Burmese military was committing killings, sexual violence, and forced labor against the civilians in the conflict areas. The John Hopkins School of Public Health reported in 2008 that “a slow-motion genocide envelops ethnic minorities in eastern Burma.” In 2012 they had their first free election in 40 years and inched towards having a democratic government although the country was still controlled by the military. Much of the progress that was made in the past 10 years was erased in 2020.