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Al Jazeera
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Emily Fishbein, Jaw Tu Hkawng

Military attack leaves Myanmar’s displaced civilians with ‘no safe place’

A funeral for those killed at Mung Lai Hkyet village and IDP camp [Awng Ja/Al Jazeera]

On the night of October 9, Seng Mai was awoken by a deafening explosion that tore apart her shelter in Mung Lai Hkyet, a camp for conflict-displaced people in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State.

“The sound was so loud that I wondered whether I had even survived,” the 21-year-old told Al Jazeera.

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