This is the Guardian.

Today, the small group of journalists reporting on a forgotten war

and what it takes to keep the story alive.

In her apartment, somewhere in a busy city in Southeast Asia, journalist Emily Fishbine wakes to another day of work. Her phone's filling with updates from her contacts and pictures. People with gunshot wounds torture marks. But it isn't Ukraine.

But it isn't Ukraine. Emily is part of a small band of journalists trying to report on the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar.

More than a year ago, the military took power there and imprisoned the country's leader, Hong Sung Su-chi.

Emily, an American, was living in Myanmar, but the day of the coup, she was at home in the States visiting her family. And afterwards, she couldn't go back.

Instead, she went to a neighboring country, once she'd preferred we not identify and started getting the word out about what was happening in Myanmar.

First, the peaceful protests against the coup. Then the military's violent crackdown against those protests. And now, something close to a civil war.

It's very hard to even take a moment's rest or to turn off. So I am constantly checking through the news, but also checking with dread because my newsfeed is full of graphic and horrifically tragic incidents.

It's shocking every single time that I open my phone to see the images and the messages coming in.

Emily is part of a network of journalists that includes reporters inside Myanmar. People facing extraordinary dangers, because she sometimes loses contact with for days or weeks at a time, without explanation. No idea if they're safe.

Sometimes I feel so dark and down, and it's hard to even keep going in the day.

So one thing that I do to cope is whenever I feel so heavy and down, I go to a flower shop near my house and I buy a potted plant.

So for example, when I lose contact with a friend, I don't know if they're safe or not, or if a friend of mine is arrested, I will buy a potted plant and then every time I look at that plant, I can remember and think of them.

And how many plants do you have in your house at the moment?

Too many. My entire balcony is full of potted plants. Even today, I went out to get one.

And why did you buy one today?

Someone that we know we've been unable to make contact now for several weeks, and that's terrifying. And so I'm just hoping that we can make contact soon and that they're in the safe place.

Many of the reporters in Myanmar, who Emily works with, don't use their real names anymore.

People like a journalist were going to call John. He was there when the Myanmar military first started shooting at protesters and going after those trying to tell the world about it.

I was at the scene. I was taking live of the footage of the protests. And the protesters were sort of cornered by the soldiers and the police. And they used excessive force.

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