In July 2020 a jade mine collapsed at Hpakant in Kachin State, killing 172 people.
We went to the town to find out what happened to the families they left behind, and why so many workers were in a mining site that was meant to be closed.
The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.
BY Esther Wah
