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RARE PHOTOS: A false new world of empty promises - The Real Truth

This photo taken on Oct 29, 2021 show smoke and fires from Thantlang, in Chin State, where more than 160 buildings were destroyed in shelling from junta troops. (Photo: AFP)

The setting is a house on stilts located in a Myanmar military base in the middle of what until then had been known as the civil war's black area. The time was April 2012. The scene was Kyauk Kyi in Myanmar's Bago Region which is basically a free-fire zone for the Myanmar military.

Sitting on the floor, representatives of the displaced village communities, who had been hiding in the jungle for close to 30 years, never further than a day's march away from the villages from which they had had to flee.

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