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‘The junta is heartless’: Landmine victims blame Myanmar military

Myanmar government soldiers at the site of a landmine explosion in Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border in 2016 [File: Myanmar Armed Forces/AFP]

Chiang Mai, Thailand – Three months after she was forced to flee her village in Kayah State to avoid an attack by the Myanmar military, Say Myar decided to return to retrieve a supply of rice she had left behind.

Her husband had fallen ill, and the family was running low on food at the camp for internally displaced people where they were sheltering.

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