David Baulk, center, a specialist from Fortify Rights, a non-profit human rights organization, talks to journalists during a launching of a report on Myanmar's Kachin State at a hotel Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. Others present; Amy Smith, left, executive director of Fortify Rights, and La Rip, right, executive director of Kachin Development Group (KDG). Katchin State is enmeshed in an armed conflict between the government and the ethnic rebels of the Kachin Independence Army, which has driven many civilians into refugee camps. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
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