The third installment of #VQRTrueStory—our new social-media experiment in which stories and images cross platforms, from Instagram to the website to the magazine—features Julia Cooke in Mawlamyine, Burma.
Editor's note: This is a 2-part series on the Rohingya in Burma. Read the first post here. For more about Burma, see our Summer 2012 issue, Burma Exhales.
The Rohingya in Bangladesh: A dozen or more family members often live in the same hu [...]
Editor's note: This is the first post in a two-part series on the Rohingya in Burma. For more about Burma, see our Summer 2012 issue, Burma Exhales.
Blind in one eye after being beaten in the head during forced labor, this man fled from B [...]
Shwedagon Spire (Burma), photo by Christopher Bartlett
Our Summer 2012 issue features original reporting on and from Burma.
Since 1996, Burma has asked foreigners to stay away, but independent travel has been encouraged fol [...]
How an insurgent movement of pro-democracy activists—from underground, in exile, or in prison—returned to take Burma’s military junta by political storm.
Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy may have pushed Burma from an isolated nation to potential partner to the rest of the world. But a trip deep inside the rebel camps tells a different story.
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