“We didn’t want to leave our homeland, but we had no choice,” said Sai Oo, who recently arrived in Thailand from Shan State with his wife and four children. “If we had stayed, my family would have starved. The situation is getting worse and worse.” Since 2021, the State Administration Council (SAC) has been determined to crush the resistance that threatens its hold on power. Beyond the toll measured in lives lost and people wounded, the war has also devastated Burma’s economy.