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Zaw Min Htike 37, a volunteer driver from the Myanmar red cross society who was wounded in an attack on a red cross convoy, holds a newspaper featuring his picture on the frontpage, at a hospital in Lashio February 19, 2015. Myanmar President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in the Kokang region in the east and imposed a three-month period of martial law there in an announcement on state television on Tuesday night. Fighting broke out on Feb. 9 between the Myanmar army and an ethnic Kokang force called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), causing thousands of displaced civilians to flee, either to other areas in Myanmar or over the border into China. On Tuesday, unknown attackers shot and wounded two people in a convoy of eight vehicles marked with the emblem of the Myanmar Red Cross Society that was attempting to transport civilians displaced by fighting in Laukkai, on the Chinese border, a witness said. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)
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