{"id":41020,"date":"2022-01-24T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/jan\/24\/resistance-myanmar-regime-chin-state-photo-essay"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:00:44","slug":"resistance-to-the-myanmar-regime-in-chin-state-a-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41020","title":{"rendered":"Resistance to the Myanmar regime in Chin state \u2013 a photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The photojournalist Alex McBride has been embedded with rebel forces in Chin state, Myanmar, during a critical moment for the country, as the regime assaults the area in a worrying echo of the Rohingya genocide<\/p>\n

As a 17-year-old, Mai Zacer Mawi* was used to being pushed around. An avid and talented martial artist, she had been selected to move from her rural home town of Falam, in north-western Myanmar, to one of the country\u2019s major cities, Yangon. There she had been invited to practise martial arts at a national training camp. But despite her prowess, Mawi faced taunts and bullying from her peers because of her background.<\/p>\n

Her home town lies in Chin state, one of 15 territories within Myanmar.<\/p>\n

Chin National Defence Force (CNDF) soldiers practise drills at a training facility under the direction of a soldier recently defected from the Tatmadaw in Falam township.<\/p>\n

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The photojournalist Alex McBride has been embedded with rebel forces in Chin state, Myanmar, during a critical moment for the country, as the regime assaults the area in a worrying echo of the Rohingya genocideAs a 17-year-old, Mai Zacer Mawi* was used…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,71,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions\/41021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}