Where Even Flowers Stoke Fear (opens in new tab)

In Myanmar, civilians are petrified by a relentless civil war, which last year made the Southeast Asian nation the most severely affected by conflict on earth, after Palestinian territories, according to the conflict monitor ACLED. Residents are panicked by a conscription law that can dispatch any young man or woman to the front lines. They are nervous every time a soldier at a checkpoint demands to see a phone, lest an offhand message or meme land them in prison. This is a country of averted...