We go into the world of the weizza, people believed to have gained magical powers through years of meditation.


Ali Fowle is an award winning freelance documentary filmmaker and broadcast journalist who has been based in Myanmar for nine years. Originally from E... dinburgh, UK, Ali has worked in international news and current affairs since 2007, specialising in Southeast Asia where she has lived and worked since 2009. She has worked extensively on issues of conflict, illicit trade and trafficking, law and justice, civil disobedience and media freedom.
We go into the world of the weizza, people believed to have gained magical powers through years of meditation.

More than 6,000 people have been detained since the coup, and journalists are one of many groups being targeted.
![Pro-democracy protesters and a journalist run as riot police officers advance on them during a rally against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on February 27, 2021 [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-02-27T060159Z_1727122462_RC2U0M9EBT52_RTRMADP_3_MYANMAR-POLITICS.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Machine-gun fire, sleeping in safe houses and waking every morning anxious to find out who has been arrested overnight.
![Ali Fowle covers a protest at Sule Pagoda, Yangon on February 22, 2021 - known as the 22222 Revolution [Photo courtesy of Ali Fowle]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ali-at-the-protests-2021.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)