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Battered, Empty Myanmar Town Shows Price Of Victory Against Junta

A scene of devastation following fighting between Myanmar's military and the Arakan Army ethnic minority armed group in a village in western Rakhine state (Credit: AFP)

Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country's civil war.

Fighters from the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group took control of the fishing port of 20,000 people in January, as the conflict sparked by the military's coup entered its fourth year.

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