Lives transformed by war: Inside the struggle to end military rule in Myanmar

Hurried hands lift and carry a wounded soldier from a small river boat. The blood pooling on the boat’s steel floor and the soldier’s bandage-covered head—more red than white—indicate that his wound is deadly serious. Medics and willing hands move him from the boat to a narrow wooden bench vacated by waiting passengers. An oxygen monitor is snapped on his finger and his blood pressure is taken. The blood creeping across the white bandage explains the medic’s frantic calls for the necessary permissions to be given to take the soldier to a local hospital.