Since fighting resumed between the Myanmar army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in June 2011 after the breakdown of a 17-year ceasefire, around 100,000 people have been displaced in the country’s north.
Many have been living in limbo in small, cramped displacement shelters that were hastily built and barely able to withstand the freezing winters and monsoon’s torrential downpours. Jobs are scarce, aid support is dwindling and the future uncertain for these internally displaced people (IDPs).
In early January, some IDPs in Myitkyina spoke to Myanmar Now, an independent news service supported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Photos by Thin Lei Win/Myanmar Now
