A woman carries water near a camp for internally displaced people in Kayah State’s Demoso Township on October 18, 2021. (AFP)

Desperate IDPs fall prey to human traffickers

Human trafficking has increased in Myanmar since the coup amid widespread lawlessness and economic stagnation, with those internally displaced by conflict among the most vulnerable.

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