Now campaigners are mobilising to resist organised returnsBawk Nu Awng hasn’t been home since 2011. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bawk Nu Awng, 21, whose family have been displaced three times since fighting broke out in Myanmar’s Kachin state in 2011. Nationwide, an estimated 241,000 people like Bawk Nu Awng remain in camps, including more than 97,000 in Kachin state. The event was moved and went ahead, but Pau Lu and Seng Nu Pan were charged with holding an unauthorised protest. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seng Nu Pan, seated, is flanked by Bawk Nu Awng, left, and Nawng Lat.

Source: The Guardian August 01, 2019 06:00 UTC