[Tee tiong huat]

An abandoned Myanmar military camp sits atop a wooded hill, overlooking a picturesque lake which is well known in these parts because of its unique heart-like shape. Landmine canisters spent bullets litter ground. Yellow wildflowers have sprouted through piles of corrugated tin sheets strewn about where soldiers’ barracks used to be. Hastily dug trenches line along camp.

A flag flutters in the wind - red, white and blue horizontal stripes with picture of a hornbill at the ctr – flag of Chin National Army (CNA), an ethnic armed group fighting against Myanmar’s military junta in western Chin state. 

7-mths ago the CNA, along with local armed civilian groups, pushed Myanmar’s army out of camp at Rihkhawdar – a border trade town with India – from other areas in the Chin state. It’s an unprecedented advance for Chin insurgents against Myanmar’s junta & the military dictatorship which crushed the country’s fragile democracy in a coup in 2021.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cydd87gen62o