The jungle is silent. I'm asleep, cocooned in a mosquito net on the floor of a wooden pagoda. Beneath me lies a steep hill which conceals a secret frontline hospital in Myanmar. "We have ...

The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the ...

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

Some three dozen paratroopers, led by Major Flynn, are dropped in the jungle to find an enemy radar station whose destruction will aid the airborne reinvasion of Burma. They succeed almost too ...

Burma’s resistance forces operate with a highly decentralized structure, with numerous ethnic armed groups, each with their own languages, cultures and customs. Initially, it was difficult to convince ...

The Burma Army troops just wanted to kill us Karen ... Many people fled to the jungle. In March 2002 my other cousin’s husband was also killed. Their house and livestock were destroyed too.