Bangladesh border villagers maimed by Myanmar landmines as conflict spills over into their forests and farms.
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Bangladesh border villagers maimed by Myanmar landmines as conflict spills over into their forests and farms.
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In the dense hill forests along Bangladesh’s border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.
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