Five young doctors took over their mission together: defying the Mijar Hunt to treat wounded through a national blow and a deadly military attack four years ago. Since then, each has continued to support a democratic thing.

For Dr. min, 32, it meant running away in the jungle to offer triage on the battlefield Rebel forces who fought against the army. But when earthquake Last week, he devastated his hometown, Mandalay, he knew he had to cross the combat zones to check his family and again helped his friend of a doctor.

“I prayed all the way back,” he said.

Dr. Min returned on time watching the bodies of his four friends pulling out of the ruins a A condominium of 12 upsThe stench of a mass death that lies in the tropical heat.

This is a measure of the collapse of Mjanmar that the generals have come to see health care providers as enemies of the state. Junta closed at least seven private hospitals in Mandalay, the second largest city in the country, which were considered a cute resistance. He has closed doctors and nurses.

Nevertheless, Dr. min joined the group of medical volunteers and rushed to the affected city. The inhabitants passed through the debris with their bare hands, encouraged the shouts, and then whispered the captured. In the end, the sounds stopped. One day, her mother and her four -month -old daughter were drawn alive. Dr. Min was managed by the first aid. The baby died.

There were only bodies in an apartment of 12 pills, said Dr. Min, including four friends who joined him in defiance with a coup.

“It was hearty seeing them on the brackets, not breathing,” he said.

Prior to the coup, Dr. Min, who was identified part of his name because of his safety, had a normal life. His girlfriend was a nurse. He drove Honda Hatchback and rested on the beach in Thailand. Under the influence of his father, a mathematics teacher who secretly listened to the BBC worked during the earlier time of military rule, Dr. Min supported a democratic opposition, which won the 2015 and 2020 elections.

“I was happy then,” he said.

In February 2021. The military closed selected heads of the Mjanmar. Dr. Min joined the peaceful protests that sent hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. Junta replied with the release of a sniper. The Dr. Min Public Hospital worked to send emergency vehicles to collect victims. He thus joined the civil disobedient movement, seeing the garbage collectors, auditors and doctors boycott the new military regime.

Dr. Min and his friends began to treat civilians targeted Junta. There were many individual wounds from firearms, all the way to the head, some in the children, he said. Once, Dr. min helped an older woman in a private ambulance with blinking lights, just for soldiers to knock on a shot.

After the protest, Dr. min fled to the jungle where professionals like him – lawyers, accountants, doctors – formed an armed fight against Hunt. He learned how to sleep with nocturnal insects and how to dig into Latrin. The unit started with 80 soldiers. He lost about 20 on the battlefield.

When the earthquake hit, the rebel groups advanced against the army, which fasted big cities, included Mandalay. Despite the plea for international assistance in the earthquake damage, Junta ticked up the supplies of the capital, Naypyidaw, and set up road blockages to prevent volunteers from entering cities and more distant areas.

“The military Hunt re -uses the humanitarian crisis to determine its power at the price of thousands of life,” said Charles Santiago, a co -assembly of the collective of Southeast Asia dedicated to human rights.

It is a little chance that anyone is still alive in the wreckage of Mandalay, although one man has been saved after five days. The disease is threatening now. They are dissatisfied with the gases and cannot return to their destroyed homes, residents sleep where they can, in the shadow of the city palace or in open fields. Junta soldiers occasionally throw them out, forcing them to find a new refuge. Food and water run low.

“Junta cares more about the exclusion of hospitals and blocking a doctor than saving life after the earthquake,” said Dr. Min. “They don’t act like people.”

After watching more bodies coming out of the ruins, Dr. Min rest. It was, he was afraid, more lives for salvation.

He passed the buildings in the census at strange corners. He avoided a growing crowd of garbage, walking down a famous tape toward his family home.

It still stood. His family spilled to greet him. Everyone was alive. He kept them close, the tension for the last four years overcame him. They talked, although it was impossible to say everything or even anything.

Then Dr. min left home again.