The 15-year-old reporter deleted the data from her phone and packed up her guitar as she set out to meet a guerrilla fighter in Myanmar. The instrument was mostly a decoy, there to disguise her work as a journalist. She cleared the data from her phone to protect her sources in the event of an arrest.
Greeting the fighter, she took out the guitar and strummed an old Burmese tune, “The Sound of the Crane.”
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