Inside Myanmar’s new democratic revolution
How Burmese are fighting back against a murderous coup.
Sara Perria / @sara_perria
Independent journalist covering Southeast Asia
Sara Perria is an Anglo-Italian journalist. She has been covering Myanmar, as well as Southeast Asia, since 2015 and, prior to that, worked in Italy and London. She is currently writing for La Stampa and her words have appeared in the Financial Times, HuffPost, the Independent and others.
Most Recent Posts
Italians head to the polls with election on knife-edge
With two
former prime ministers back in action and the Five Star Movement still
attracting voters, Italians will likely be facing another coalition
government after the March 4 vote.
A problematic return to Myanmar
Is it possible to send
Rohingya back to a country that still largely believes they don’t belong? Sara
Perria reports on what’s next for the refugee group and the paralysis of the
international community on the issue.
Rohingya women facing violence, by military and inside camps
The mass exodus of Myanmar’s stateless Muslim
minority has been condemned as ethnic cleansing. Sara Perria visited Myanmar’s
Rakhine State, shortly before the military’s latest offensive, to investigate
how violence against Rohingya women is used as a weapon of war and how camps
for internally displaced persons risk becoming breeding grounds for abuse.
The Unmaking of Myanmar
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have recently crossed into Bangladesh in search of safety. Just weeks before the exodus, journalist Sara Perria went to Myanmar to understand the origins of the conflict, the complex
views around the minority group and the role of the international community in their aid.