Life in Myanmar's resistance-held areas

TANINTHARYI TOWNSHIP, Myanmar -- The fading banner of Aung San Suu Kyi has seen better days. Riddled with bullet holes, it hangs outside the office of Myanmar's National League for Democracy in Le Thit, a half-abandoned village on the banks of the Tanintharyi River in southern Myanmar.

The NLD office was vandalized two years ago by troops loyal to Myanmar's military government. But they reserved lighter treatment for an image of Suu Kyi's father, Aung San: a trace of gunfire next to his cheek, as if the soldiers lost the nerve to disfigure the founder of Myanmar's military.