This photo taken on October 17, 2023 shows women working on a floating farm on Inle Lake in southern Shan State. Floating farms have become as ubiquitous on Myanmar's Inle Lake as its famed houses on stilts and leg-rowing fishermen, but locals warn they are slowly choking the UNESCO-recognised reserve. The ever-expanding farms are eating up surface area, sending chemical runoff into the waters, and clogging the picturesque site with discarded plant matter, opponents say. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on October 18, 2023 shows men collecting aquatic vegetation for use on their floating farm on Inle Lake in southern Shan State. Floating farms have become as ubiquitous on Myanmar's Inle Lake as its famed houses on stilts and leg-rowing fishermen, but locals warn they are slowly choking the UNESCO-recognised reserve. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A large boat carry Buddha images during the pagoda festival tours across the Inlay Lake, southern Shan State, Myanmar Thursday, October 19, 2023. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Inntha ethnic people row their boats during traditional boats racing competition to mark the pagoda festival Thursday, October 19, 2023, in Inlay Lake, southern Shan State, Myanmar. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Inntha ethnic people row on a long boat in a procession carrying Buddha images to a monastery during the pagoda festival in Inlay Lake, southern Shan State, Myanmar, Thursday, October 19, 2023. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





This photo taken on October 18, 2023, shows devotees rowing as they follow the four sacred Buddha images placed on a golden barge during the festival of Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda in Inle Lake, Myanmar's Shan State. Thousands of Buddhist devotees joined a waterborne procession on Myanmar's Inle lake as one of the country's biggest festivals returned to joy and sorrow as conflict between the military and its opponents rages on. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Men practice leg-rowing boat race during the Phaung Daw Oo pagoda festival on Inle Lake, Southern Shan State on October 19, 2023. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A vendor arranges tomatoes as she waits for customers at a local bazaar near Inle Lake, southern Shan State, Myanmar on Friday, October 20, 2023. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army hold the group's flag as they pose for a photograph on a captured army armored vehicle in Myanmar, Saturday October 28, 2023. The leader of Myanmar’s army-installed government said the military will carry out counter-attacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups that has seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and northern regions, state-run media reported Friday Nov. 3, 2023. (“The Kokang” online media via AP Photo)





In this photo released from the The Military True News Information Team on November 6, 2023, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center, leader of ruling military council, attends together with Russian Navy Commander-in-chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, center right, during opening ceremony of first Myanmar Russia Maritime Security Exercise at Thilawa port in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by The Military True News Information Team via AP Photo)





Ethnic Inntha men demonstrate their leg-rowing techniques during a ceremony to mark Inntha National Day Monday, November 13, 2023, in Inle Lake, southern Shan State, Myanmar. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





This picture taken on November 21, 2023 shows a man resting after performing a traditional dance during a ceremony at the Tazaungdaing festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, in Taunggyi in Myanmar's Shan State. The usually riotous Tazaungdaing festival was muted this year, with revellers staying away and a heavy presence of security personnel, as Myanmar's military battles coordinated attacks across the country. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





In this photo provided by the Kokang online media, members of an ethnic armed forces group, one of the three militias known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance, check weapons the group allegedly seized from Myanmar's army outpost on a hill in Hsenwi township in Shan state, Myanmar, on November 24, 2023. A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to attack. (Photo by The Kokang online media via AP Photo)





In this photo provided by the Kokang online media, members of an ethnic armed forces group, one of the three militias known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance, pose for a photograph in front of weapons the group allegedly seized from Myanmar's army outpost on a hill in Hsenwi township in Shan state, Myanmar, on November 24, 2023. A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to attack. (Photo by The Kokang online media via AP Photo)





People’s Liberation Army members carry an injured person in Sagaing, Myanmar on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





This photo taken on December 10, 2023 shows female members of the Mandalay People's Defense Forces (MDY-PDF) heading to the frontline amid clashes with the Myanmar military in northern Shan State. In the hills of northern Myanmar young women fly combat drones, treat wounded comrades and patrol the frontlines, new roles in the battle to overthrow the military junta. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo taken on December 13, 2023 shows members of ethnic minority armed group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) heading to the front line amid clashes with Myanmar's military near Namhsan Township in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Nestled in the hills of northern Shan state, the town of Namhsan is the latest to fall to Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) fighters since they launched a surprise offensive launched against Myanmar's junta in October. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo taken on December 12, 2023 shows residents looking out from their home along a quiet street in Namhsan Township amid clashes between ethnic minority armed group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar's military in northern Shan State. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo taken on December 13, 2023 shows members of ethnic minority armed group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) preparing their weapons amid clashes with Myanmar's military in Namhsan Township in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





This photo taken on December 13, 2023 shows local residents leaving their homes during clashes between the ethnic minority armed group Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar's military in Namhsan Township in Myanmar's northern Shan State. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)