The military authorities in Myanmar are cracking down on a new weapon employed by the pro-democracy resistance – not guns or explosives, but a smartphone video game that is being used to raise money for the struggle against the ruling junta.
Players of War of Heroes have taken to deleting the game when they leave their homes and reinstalling it when they return, after soldiers at military checkpoints began searching phones for traces of the app. Despite this, it has been downloaded a million times and has up to 445,000 daily players, according to the activists who developed it, for whom it earns the equivalent of £865 a day.
Players of the game take on the role of male or female members of the People’s
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