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Why did they all leave their homes?

Displaced people from Myanmar carry belongings as they make their way to the Moei River on the Thai-Myanmar border to return from Thailand’s Mae Sot district in Tak province, in this file photo released on April 11 by the Royal Thai Army. (Photo: AFP)

The campaigns by Myanmar’s military government to raid and attack settlements, followed by the burning of houses of civilians and various forms of human rights violations throughout the rural areas in Myanmar, have made the news many times in the past two years. As of information on June 14, according to the Data of Myanmar — an independent organisation that provides useful “data for the people” in country — at least 70,324 houses of civilians throughout Myanmar have been…

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