The setting is a house on stilts located in a Myanmar military base in the middle of what until then had been known as the civil war’s black area. The time was April 2012. The scene was Kyauk Kyi in Myanmar’s Bago Region which is basically a free-fire zone for the Myanmar military. Sitting on the floor, representatives of the displaced village communities, who had been hiding in the jungle for close to 30 years, never further than a day’s march away from the villages from which they had had to flee. They had been on constant move, every two to three years having to relocate in the jungle as th…