Journalist Verena Hölzl moved to Myanmar to cover the country’s transition from junta rule to democracy. What she found was even more complex.
A wildly diverse society with long-running conflicts on multiple front lines, Myanmar now faces charges of genocide for the military purge and persecution of its Rohingya minority.
In this Reporter’s View, Hölzl describes the night-and-day experiences of travelling between her home city of Yangon in Myanmar, where anti-Rohingya sentiment dominates, and the teeming refugee camps of Bangladesh, now home to nearly one million Rohingya.