Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
BY Oliver Slow
In a town on the Chindwin River lives an octogenarian who enjoys conversation with visitors and has some grim memories from World War II.
BY Oliver Slow
Travellers on the Chindwin are rewarded by idyllic scenery, encounters with unique characters and a chance to play on one of the country’s oldest, and most bizarre, golf courses.
BY Oliver Slow
Unique customs are resolving old disputes in the Naga Self-Administered Zone, where the brutal legacies of colonialism, world war and neglect under military rule have left residents eager for development but determined to preserve traditions.
