Since a military junta seized power in 2021, Burmese youth started fighting alongside established ethnic militias to free their country. To them, there is no such thing as the future, but only a present made of war and its horrors.
Journalist and graduate student in History at the University of Milan with a thesis on Somalia. Specializing in crises and conflicts on the African continent, from 2012 to the present I have covered and reported on the wars in Somalia, Congo, Nigeria, Sudan, the conflict in the Central African Republic, the crisis in Burundi, the human exodus from Somalia to Kenya and from South Sudan to Uganda.
Since a military junta seized power in 2021, Burmese youth started fighting alongside established ethnic militias to free their country. To them, there is no such thing as the future, but only a present made of war and its horrors.