New beginnings: People of the Chin community building a house in Bethel village on the outskirts of Yangon, where hundreds have settled. — 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.
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