Dancers Visakha and Naroth perform a traditional Kula dance in front of Wat Yat, in the Cambodian town of Pailin, on May 11. (Daniel Zak | Frontier)

‘We were the Kula’: Cambodia’s missing Myanmar community

Tucked away in the mountains of western Cambodia are the remnants of a once-thriving Myanmar community known as the Kula, whose decline is a little-explored mystery involving gems, dreams and the Khmer Rouge.

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