{"id":60640,"date":"2023-12-19T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/gallery\/2023\/dec\/19\/amid-myanmars-longest-war-a-people-struggle-to-survive-in-the-forest"},"modified":"2023-12-19T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:00:20","slug":"amid-myanmars-longest-war-a-people-struggle-to-survive-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60640","title":{"rendered":"Amid Myanmar\u2019s longest war, a people struggle to survive in the forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 70 years, Burmese military governments have waged campaigns of repression and occupation against Myanmar\u2019s Karen people. Their struggle for self-determination was dealt a heavy blow by the 2021 coup, with the first military airstrikes in more 20 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/24\/i-have-no-idea-how-ill-survive-myanmar-villagers-who-fled-airstrikes-face-food-shortage\">internally displacing more than 200,000 people<\/a>. The lush forests of Karen state, in the Salween River basin, preserved for generations through sustainable traditions, have become a refuge. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbercovich.com\/\">Matias Bercovich<\/a>\u2019s photographs highlight the extraordinary resilience of the local communities, rooted in their intimate connection to ancestral territory<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/gallery\/2023\/dec\/19\/amid-myanmars-longest-war-a-people-struggle-to-survive-in-the-forest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 70 years, Burmese military governments have waged campaigns of repression and occupation against Myanmar\u2019s Karen people. Their struggle for self-determination was dealt a heavy blow by the 2021 coup, with the first military airstrikes in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4068,"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":[59,498,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-internally-displaced-people","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\/60640","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\/4068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60641,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640\/revisions\/60641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}