Chiang Mai, Thailand – Three months after she was forced to flee her village in Kayah State to avoid an attack by the Myanmar military, Say Myar decided to return to retrieve a supply of rice she had left behind.
Her husband had fallen ill, and the family was running low on food at the camp for internally displaced people where they were sheltering.
“A week before, two men went back to get some food and nothing happened,” she told Al Jazeera.
As she approached her abandoned home, Say Myar recalled how she first heard a loud blast. Then she realised the extent of her injuries — her right leg was blown off at the knee.
Her travel companions wrapped the wound and rushed her to a makeshift health centre, which managed to save Say Myar’s life.
“I was a farmer my whole life, but now it’s difficult to work. I feel sorry that I’ve become a burden for my husband,” she…
