The teak trees of the Bago Yoma mountain range have long been a target for illegal logging, but the practice has intensified amid the post-coup chaos, with the involvement of both junta and resistance forces.
BY Frontier
In a cruel chain reaction, some Moken youth have ended up working for the fishing fleets that are destroying the ecosystem that supported them over generations.
For one young woman, a train ride in Mon State in 2004 was the beginning of 13 years of misery as a human trafficking victim who was sold twice to lonely men in China.
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