Of Flowers and Bullets

El Pais

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“We need everyone to join our revolution, even the poets.” The ruling is from the Burmese poet Ko Maung Saungkha who, showing unappealable consistency, is also commander, with a thousand soldiers in his charge, of the People’s Liberation Army, the rebel militias fighting the military dictatorship in Myanmar. This civil war has displaced, and scattered, 3.5 million people throughout the territory.