Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
The United Nations has said Myanmar is mired in a 'polycrisis' of mutually compounding conflict, poverty and environmental ...
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‘We feel unsafe’: Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...
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In Myanmar’s fields of fear, farmers sow opium poppies for survival
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields ... “Everyone thinks people grow poppy flowers to be rich, but we are just trying hard to get by,” he said in rural ...
They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are held in detention on the Myanmar border
Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed ...
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They were forced to scam others worldwide. Now thousands are detained on the Myanmar border
Pausing a moment, she gestured out a nearby window toward the Friendship Bridge to Myanmar just blocks away. “I think what people don ... The bosses, he said, are “rich as hell” and ...
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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
"How can we get rich from that?" he asks. - 'Unsafe' - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates there are more than 3.5 million people displaced in Myanmar. But fleeing ...
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Why thousands freed from forced labour face indefinite detention on Myanmar border
Pausing a moment, she gestured out a nearby window toward the Friendship Bridge to Myanmar just blocks away. “I think what people don ... The bosses, he said, are “rich as hell” and ...