Over the past 2 years since the coup, the military junta has ruled Myanmar with extreme brutality, driving the country’s economy into the ground and creating a public health and refugee nightmare. The junta has torched villages, launched airstrikes on civilians and detained anyone suspected of supporting pro-democracy movements. The guerrillas fighting the junta, many are from Myanmar’s heartland, establishment the People’s Defense Force (PDF) and declared a ‘people’s defensive war’. According to Amnesty.org the escalating violence throughout Myanmar has displaced more than 284,700 people, including over 76,000 children. Welcome to ‘MYANMARS DESCENT’
Storms caused flooding and mudslides in parts of California, and Brazilians rioted in the capital after a Bolsonaro election loss. The January 2023 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress is now published. PLEASE SHARE!
ZUMA received a huge volume of over one million professional photographer’s images, all shot in the month of month. The ZUMA photographers covered the four corners of the world to bring pictures that need to be seen! POM shows the best work of these photojournalists, documenting the most important events of the past month.
ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Cici Brown, Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Mason, Julie Rogers, Katrina Kochneva, Pat Johnson, Ruaridh Stewart, Scott Mc Kiernan, Shalan Stewart, Jimmy Colton, Robin Loznak and the POM Editor-in-Chief Mark Avery made this possible. Enjoy and pass the word to others.
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In May 2022, I met Natalya, a mother mourning her son, who is buried at a cemetery in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv. In the weeks prior, hundreds of bodies were exhumed in the area surrounding Bucha. Her son Alexander, 40, was killed as he tried to rescue her while Russian troops entered the city as she hid in an underground shelter. Two weeks after coming out of hiding, Alexander’s wife informed her mother-in-law about her son’s fate. She said, ”when volunteers found him, he showed signs of torture and had a gunshot wound to the back of the head.” She is one of the many individuals I met with similarly horrific stories. This is my testimony documenting this senseless tragedy’s incalculable costs. The project’s title is my take on the original poem ”Testament” by Taras Shevchenko, whose literary works are considered to be the basis of modern Ukrainian literature and the modern Ukrainian language. ”When I die, then make my grave, High on an ancient mound, In my own beloved Ukraine,” Taras Shevchenko. Welcome to ‘UKRAINE Testament’
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