Students look at a pile of seized illegal drugs before they are set on fire during a destruction ceremony to mark the United Nations' “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” in Yangon on June 26, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Smoke rises from a burning pile of seized illegal drugs during a destruction ceremony to mark the United Nations' “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” in Yangon on June 26, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photograph taken on July 5, 2022 shows septuagenarian Ohn Myint (C) keeping watch on a performing youth as his granddaughter Han Myint Mo (L) looks on during a juggling training session at a residence in Yangon. Han Myint Mo kicks up a gold-coloured metal ball, pirouettes and catches it on the blade of a knife held in her teeth – keeping up a Myanmar juggling tradition on the edge of extinction. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Buddhist devotees gather around the Shwedagon Pagoda during the Warso Full Moon Festival in Yangon on July 12, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Young nuns pray at Shwedagon Pagoda during the Full Moon Day of warso, in Yangon on July 12, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This handout picture taken and released by Yangon People's Strike on August 8, 2022, shows protesters walking through Yangon with umbrellas bearing in Burmese the number 8 during a rally to mark the anniversary of the August 8, 1988 democracy uprising against a previous junta. (Photo by Yangon People's Strike/Handout via AFP Photo)





This photo taken on August 17, 2022, show people waiting in a queue to receive free meal along a street in Yangon. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





People queue to buy cheap vegetable oil, in Yangon on August 18, 2022. Dozens queued under monsoon drizzle for subsidised cooking oil in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon, one of the many commodities that have become scarce as economic misery strikes the city, following the last coup and has been further rattled by the junta's attempts to seize scarce foreign exchange and erratic rules governing businesses and imports. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo taken on August 17, 2022, in Yangon, shows a volunteer preparing free meals to distribute. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A labourer sleeps on a pile of cocunuts in wholesale market at the Yangon jetty in Yangon on Septemer 13, 2022. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Bodybuilding athletes compete in the Myanmar National Championship Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Competition in Yangon on September 18, 2022. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Military True News Information Team, medical aids treat an injured passenger of an airplane at a hospital in Loikaw, the capital of the eastern state of Kayah, also known as Karenni, Myanmar, Friday, September 30, 2022. Myanmar’s military government accused rebel forces in the eastern state of Kayah of firing at a passenger plane as it was preparing to land Friday, wounding a passenger who was hit by a bullet that penetrated the fuselage. Rebel groups denied the allegation. (Photo by Military True News Information Team via AP Photo)





A Buddhist devotee prays next to Buddha statues during a visit to Shwedagon pagoda to mark the full moon of the Thadingyut festival in Yangon on October 9, 2022. Thousands of Buddhist devotees thronged Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda to mark the full moon of the Thadingyut festival on October 9, some offering prayers for their country plunged into turmoil by last year's coup. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Buddhist devotees and monks pray at the popular Shwedagon pagoda during the full moon day of Thadingyut, the lighting festival to mark the end of Buddhist Lent, Sunday, October 9, 2022, in Yangon, Myanmar. The Thadingyut festival is held at the end of Buddhist Lent marking Buddha's descent from heaven after he sermonized the Abhidamma to his mother who was born in heaven. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





This photo taken on November 7, 2022 shows revellers celebrating as fireworks explode after they released a hot-air balloon attached with fireworks during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival at Pyin Oo Lwin Township in Mandalay. Thousands of people have gathered in the hills of central Myanmar for the annual Tazaungdaing light festival that marks the end of the rainy season with a fiery nighttime display of exploding hot-air balloons. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





The moon rises above Myanmar Landmark Shwedagon pagoda during a lunar eclipse in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Relatives gather around a bus carrying prisoners being released outside the Insein prison in Yangon on November 17, 2022. Myanmar's military said November 17 it will release almost 6,000 prisoners including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian economics adviser who will be deported, in a rare olive branch from the isolated junta. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A man looks out from a bus window as people look for their family members and relatives on a bus carrying prisoners who released from Insein Prison Thursday, November 17, 2022, in Yangon, 2022, in Yangon, Myanmar. The country's military-controlled government announced Thursday it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty to mark the country’s National Victory Day. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman spreads out fish to dry at Ngapali Beach near a fishing village in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, Saturday, December 31, 2022. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)





A boat standing on the seashore during sunset at Ngapali Beach, in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, on New Year's Eve, Saturday, December 31, 2022. (Photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP Photo)