In the night, the mountain air not quite chill enough to still the insects, young people gathered around a glow.
The light attracting them was not a phone screen, that electric lure for people almost everywhere, but a bonfire.
Moths courted the flame, sparking when they veered too close, then swooning to their deaths.
For months now, these hills of Karenni State in eastern Myanmar have been severed from modern communications.
In these resistance strongholds, where people from around the nation have congregated, there is almost no internet, cell service or even electricity.
Persons:
strummed
Locations:
Karenni State, Myanmar