Myanmar Emerges (PHOTOS)

Myanmar Emerges is a year-long GlobalPost investigation into challenges facing Myanmar’s nascent democracy.

38-year-old farmer, Ye Ye Win and her husband stands on their land on the edge of Myanmar’s largest mine. The mine has used her land as a transit route and spoiled her crops. Ye Ye Win has filed suit against President U Thein Sein in connection to the government’s violent crackdown on anti-mining protestors and monks in front of the Leptadaung Mine, November 29, 2012.

Jonah M. Kessel