Helping IDP kids in rebel-held Kachin
Children's laughter rings out from bamboo huts along the perimeter of the Lana Zup Ja camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a part of Myanmar’s Kachin State controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA): A group of pre-schoolers are playing in a plywood hut, seemingly oblivious to the squalid conditions surrounding them.
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Landmine casualties rising in Kachin, Myanmar
LAIZA,
15 May 2013
(IRIN) -
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Rohingya evacuation under way in Myanmar
BANGKOK,
14 May 2013
(IRIN) -
The government of Myanmar has launched a large-scale effort to relocate to higher ground tens of thousands of Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDPs) ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, says the UN.
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Calamity planning - Bangladesh role-plays quake response
DHAKA,
7 May 2013
(IRIN) -
As Bangladesh armed forces retrieve bodies from the country’s worst ever industrial disaster, a garment factory collapse killing over 700, contingency planning is taking place for something worse - a long-predicted earthquake striking the mega-capital of Dhaka.
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