David told his story one evening while watching the sunset on a hilltop far from his town and the alert ears of informants. Everyone is waiting for the new dawn. Conditions have undoubtedly improved since then. Living standards are another matter. The majority still battle to buy even essential foods such as rice, which uncontrolled inflation has rendered almost unaffordable.
Sanctions bite deeper among ordinary folk than they do among the well-cushioned military elite.
It is in the jungle that people can't live. They are close to starvation. In Myanmar you will see many people, they are laughing in the throat but they are crying on the inside. But some within Rangoon's elite murmur that she is also part of Burma's inability to evolve. They have no regard for our future prosperity.