Myanmar

And preparing for a drag show.

U Mint Aung, village chief of a tiny community in the opium fields of Eastern Myanmar brings out a clay pot brimming with multi-coloured grains. The thing looks like a trendy smoothie. But it’s home-brewed rice wine.

For the Chin women of western Myanmar, outer beauty starts with an inky black, fully tattooed face. But the government has banned the custom, and tourists are flooding in to document the dying tradition.

“The court has rendered itself complicit in the government’s efforts to obscure the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya."

"There must be justice for the victims and those who work to uncover these atrocities, with those responsible held to account for these abhorrent crimes.”

Facebook and WhatsApp have been accused by the U.N. of spreading hate speech that led to ethnic violence against the Rohingya minority.

“Although we are charged, we are not guilty.”

A week after a major fire, VICE visited the refugee camp where the community is rebuilding.

As Myanmar's state counsellor, the lawyers allege she's directly responsible for more than one million Rohingya people fleeing the country.

The Turnbull Government will spend $400,000 on the Tatmadaw​, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority.

Metalcore is still king in capital city Yangon, but black and death metal are gaining ground in this troubled Southeast Asian political hotbed.

The results of a survey by MSF paint a harrowing picture of the extent of Myanmar's brutal anti-Rohingya attacks.