What the people of Myanmar truly need is both security and administrative intervention from the UN or the global community. If there is little confidence in either the Tatmadaw or the Resistance groups to bring lasting peace to the region, then the responsibility to protect falls upon you. Security and administrative intervention from the UN or the global community is all we ask. This is the most direct way to ensure that we, the people of Myanmar, are not cast aside from this world.

Giant Ape by Lu Nei, translated from Chinese by Edward Allen from the 8th edition of TSLR. A short story from within a chapter of Lu Nei’s five-part work Mistwalkers 雾行者, published on Jan 1, 2020.