Su Myat Thwe is a visiting scientist at the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne in Germany, and an affiliated researcher at the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
"Child, this is [the] apocalypse," said a voice note, received within the first hours of Myanmar's devastating recent earthquake. It shook me to the core. It came from a veteran humanitarian whose voice had never cracked -- not during seasonal floods, pandemics, Cyclone Mocha or the Yagi Flood. Yet, this time, she wept.
