Battling a dictatorship, building a democracy

Feb. 26, 2025

By Jim Snyder and Gemunu Amarasinghe for RFA

The rainy season had just passed when we made the difficult trek to eastern Myanmar last year to see how rebel troops were managing in the fourth year of war. We interviewed dozens of people over the course of three weeks – doctors and nurses from Yangon trying to adjust to life in the jungle and a group of young men and women working to build a kinder, friendlier police force with few resources.