Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
BY Frontier
The 1949 communist victory in China sent thousands of Kuomintang troops fleeing into Shan State. Their stories live on with relatives in Taiwan and Myanmar.
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