Under a plastic tarp in a classroom at a school in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Shan State, Burma (Myanmar), students and teachers told how they were displaced by the Burma army, lost family members, and had their lives turned upside down. Their ambitions and hopes have been frozen, and many have been displaced multiple times. A common thread among a significant percentage of the camp’s hundreds of residents is that their previous IDP camp was bombed repeatedly, including the destruction of their church.
IDP camps are not protected by the UN. Most exist inside resistance-controlled areas. Across the country, more than 4 million people are internally displaced. They receive almost no international aid. Most face food and water shortages, with residents living under plastic tarps that were meant to be temporary housing but have now been used for as long as five years since the military coup that sparked the revolution.
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