Take care when hiking in Myanmar
Take care when hiking in Myanmar
Foreign tourist killed in landmine blast in Myanmar hiking region
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myan ... SKBN1Y020A
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myan ... SKBN1Y020A
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myan ... SKBN1Y020AA foreign tourist was killed and his companion injured in a suspected landmine blast in a popular hiking region in northern Myanmar close to an area of clashes between ethnic rebel groups and government troops, local sources said on Tuesday.
The pair were found outside Hsipaw town, northern Shan state, according to the leader of a charity group that brought them to a local hospital. Their nationalities could not be immediately confirmed.
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Two German travelers and their guide were wounded by shrapnel in a landmine blast in the same area in 2016.
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Re: Take care when hiking in Myanmar
That's one of the first times I've ever heard of a tourist anywhere being killed by a landmine. Is it really a popular hiking trail they were on?
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Re: Take care when hiking in Myanmar
Damn RIP
I went on a hiking trek with a guide in Hsipaw early 2000s.
I don't think I was told that there were mines in that area as I probably wouldn't have gone on a trek knowing that.
I went on a hiking trek with a guide in Hsipaw early 2000s.
I don't think I was told that there were mines in that area as I probably wouldn't have gone on a trek knowing that.
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The dam Tatmadaw in Burma only wants complete control of an area they will never get complete control of.
Still hundreds of thousands of refugees living along the Thai/Burma border
Still hundreds of thousands of refugees living along the Thai/Burma border
https://www.mmtimes.com/news/more-flee- ... state.htmlfighting in northern Shan State. The refugees said forces of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and its ally Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) have been battling fighters of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) since the start of the year in several areas in Namtu and Hsipaw townships
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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more info
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ge ... 0v-DltS1o4According to a local volunteer rescue group that responded to the incident, the two were traveling by motorcycle between Pan Nyaung Village and Kun Hauk Village about 25 kilometers west of Hsipaw Township. The road between the villages is so bumpy that the woman was forced to get off the bike and walk behind it. She was following on foot when the motorbike struck the landmine at about 5 p.m.
“The man was driving a motorcycle on the village track and rode over the landmine. He was in his 40s and suffered serious injuries to his chest, waist and leg. He died on the spot,” said Ko Myo of the group Hsipaw Social Volunteers Without Borders.
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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