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Airstrikes and Illegal Mining Add to Myanmar’s Troubles

A thriving ‘conflict economy’ is extracting minerals while the military and armed groups inflict abuse on civilians, according to a new report on the scale of recent violence in Myanmar.

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Destroyed buildings after military airstrikes in May in Kyauktaw, a town in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.
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