“You are filthy pretty much the whole time and it’s raining and it’s hot and there’s a lot of mosquitoes and rats and we had a python in the camp one night,” said the SkyNews correspondent ramsaysky of his latest assignment iburrell reports
evading the armed forces of the country’s ruling junta, which has been fighting an uprising for two years.Hunted by the drones and jets of the Myanmar armed forces,and the Royal Television Society’s TV Journalist of the Year, had never before felt scared for so long. Retiring to a city hotel to edit film and recuperate would have risked arrest and jail.
Myanmar’s junta arrested former UK ambassador, Vicky Bowman, and “so a journo is going to have a pretty bad time,” Ramsay points out. “[When reporting from] Syria I was on a wanted list for consorting with terrorists, and I am sure the Myanmar government would come up with a similar charge. Getting caught was not an option.
During its time in the jungle, Ramsay’s crew, which used solar panels and local generators to generate power, found evidence of a concerted army plan to attack hospitals, churches and schools. “The idea is to break down society but particularly the areas of education, medical facilities and places of worship.”
The Myanmar regime failed to appreciate the strength of resolve of these resistance fighters, Ramsay believes. But rebels told him they felt abandoned by a world focused on Ukraine and said that they must “keep fighting to the end”.
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