THE country said that it had repatriated more than 300 of its citizens from conflict zones in Myanmar, many of them trafficked or tricked into working in online gambling establishments.
They had been trapped by fighting that has raged across Myanmar’s northern Shan State after an alliance of ethnic minority groups launched a surprise offensive against the military in late October.
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