Myanmar's Elite Party On as Civil War Rages Below

Myanmar's civil war has killed thousands and displaced millions, while the wealthy remain insulated from these devastating impacts.

In Myanmar, a civil war that has claimed thousands of lives and displaced millions unfolds against a backdrop of champagne and nightclubs, as the country's wealthy elite maintain lives of deliberate luxury in Yangon's insulated enclaves. The divide is not merely one of wealth, but of exposure — of who must live inside the war and who has purchased the right to look away. Throughout history, societies have endured such fractures, but rarely without consequence; the distance between the dancing and the dying is a moral debt that tends, eventually, to come due.

Myanmar's Elite Party On as Civil War Rages Below

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