On 1 Feb 2021, the dreams of many people in Burma (Myanmar) were shattered overnight. Since then, I, along with everyone else in my country of over 55 million people, have been living in darkness.
The situation one year since remains dire -- one of shrinking basic freedoms, a banking and financial crisis, and mounting civil war in the midst of an unthinkable human rights disaster. For someone living in what is already one of the world's most impoverished countries, facing a military coup during a global pandemic is akin to experiencing an eight-magnitude earthquake in the middle of a category-five cyclone.
