Refugees from Myanmar in China | Tencent
Zhao Ming—Tencent
On China’s southern border, in Yunnan province, there is a school for refugees from Myanmar (also known as Burma). After a 17-year ceasefire in the internal fighting that has gone on since Myanmar’s independence from Britain in 1948, fighting erupted again in 2011 and has raged off and on ever since. Children swept up in the conflict sometimes spill over the border into China, where photographer Zhao Ming documented the refugee kids’ life at school and at play, which at times mimics all too closely the conflicts that surround them.
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On China’s southern border, in Yunnan province, there is a school for refugees from Myanmar (also known as Burma). After a 17-year ceasefire in the internal fighting that has gone on since Myanmar’s independence from Britain in 1948, fighting erupted again in 2011 and has raged off and on ever since. Children swept up in the conflict sometimes spill over the border into China, where photographer Zhao Ming documented the refugee kids’ life at school and at play, which at times mimics all too closely the conflicts that surround them.