A quake in the civil war: How Myanmar’s fighting affects emergency aid

Jochen Meissner is surprised how well the connection holds. The Austrian is on Lake Inle, a tourist hotspot in Myanmar when we can make calls via WhatsApp. A few years ago, he showed the lake here as a tourist tourist, beautiful as on Lake Wörthersee, he actually says. But today there is destruction. Many of the old bamboo stilt houses were crashed into themselves when the earth trembled for two minutes last Friday.