Myanmar's displaced Christians rebuild lives on Yangon's outskirts

Chin children playing in Hmawbi, on the outskirts of Yangon, where hundreds of members of the Chin ethnic community have settled after being displaced by fighting between Myanmar's military and the Arakan Army in the country's north. - AFP

YANGON, Jan 24 (AFP): Hammering at bamboo poles to erect a stilt house, minority Christians who have fled conflict in northern Myanmar are building a sanctuary on the outskirts of Yangon.

The small Christian community in the Buddhist-majority nation is part of 200,000 people displaced since 2018 by fierce fighting in northern Rakhine state.