An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
There are nearly half a million squatters living in and around Yangon, most of whom are unaffected by power blackouts because they have never been connected to the grid.
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