On the road in Myanmar we passed a long procession of people, marching together by holding a long rope. “Who are those people?” I asked the driver and told him to stop. He didn’t answer or stop.
Even if the country had made steps toward a more open society, demonstrations were a sensitive subject. A few miles down the road he dared to pull over and I hitched a ride back with a passing motorcyclist.
It was a march for peace. A demonstration against the ethnically charged violence in the country. Close to 100 000 from the Kachni minority had been forced to flee their homes and scores of civilians was reported killed. Up front the activist Ashin Panditamanda led the procession from Yangon to Kachin. A 45 day long trek.
Beit Hanoun, Gaza.
The only times it was possible for the inhabitants of Gaza to reach the areas most affected by the war was during cease fires. But the cease fires between Hamas and the Israeli military were very unpredictable and people rushed in to collect the dead and retrieve whatever belongings they could. More than 2000 people lost their lifes in the war of 2014, many of them were children.
