Aik Yan was returning to school from a holiday visit to his family in the Shan hills when he encountered some soldiers. Now he is making history as a resident of a children’s detention centre.
On May 31, a massive warehouse explosion in Kaung Tap village, in northern Shan State’s Namkham Township, damaged hundreds of houses and killed dozens of residents, leaving survivors to deal with the aftermath and leading some to wonder whether it is even worth rebuilding.
BY Frontier
