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MYANMAR-UNREST-ETHNIC
This picture taken on January 16, 2014 shows soldiers of the Taaung National Liberation Army (TNLA), a Palaung ethnic armed group, destroying a poppy field in Mantong township, in Myanmar's northern Shan state. Myanmar is the world's second largest source of opium after Afghanistan. Production soared 26 percent in 2013 to its highest level in over a decade, according to estimates by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Impoverished poppy farmers are increasingly reliant on the crop in unrest-hit borderlands. The TNLA is one of a host of armed ethnic minority groups that have long fought the country’s military for greater autonomy. Myanmar’s reformist government has signed peace deals with most major rebel groups since coming to power nearly three years ago, but conflicts continue to flare in some areas. AFP PHOTO/Ye Aung THU
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MANTONG, MYANMAR |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Ye Aung Thu |
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22 Ianuarie 2014 |
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4256 x 2832 (1.65 MB) |
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