Myanmar, Nov 20, 2024 (AFP) - 'An inauspicious day': the landmines ruining Myanmar lives

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2024-11-20

It was an unlucky day in the Burmese calendar, farmer Yar Swe Kyin warned her husband in July, begging him not to go out to check on their crops. Hours later he was dead, killed by one of the countless landmines laid by both sides in Myanmar's three brutal years of civil war. In the evening, "I heard an explosion from the field," she told AFP at her home in the hills of northern Shan state. "I knew he had gone to that area and I was worried." She......

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