Hungry for cash and unable to collect tax in resistance strongholds in Sagaing, the regime has taken the unusual step of revoking sought-after liquor licences in the region and transferring them to compliant businesses in Yangon.
Residents of Sagaing Region who already fled their homes because of Myanmar’s civil war have faced additional hardship since August, when flooding swept away their temporary shelters and forced them to once again struggle to rebuild their lives.
BY Frontier
