Living under threat from the skies

Learning goes on: Children attending a class in a temporary shelter at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township in Kayah state. — AFP

A woman rings a bell outside a makeshift church of wood and tarpaulin, calling the faithful to worship and a respite from war in eastern Myanmar’s Kayah state.

Thousands of young people fled from Myanmar’s cities to Kayah’s rugged hills and jungle as the army launched a crackdown on pro-democracy protests following its 2021 coup.