Digging to safety from junta

On the lookout: Members of ethnic rebel group Ta’ang National Liberation Army patrol near Namhsan Township in the northern Shan State. — AFP

At a makeshift camp for Myanmar’s displaced people, two young men hack away at the red earth with a hoe and machete to build a bunker before the next junta shelling or air raid.

Kayah state, near the Thai border, has become a flashpoint of armed resistance to the military’s coup, with “People’s Defence Forces” clashing regularly with junta troops.