Dreams of Myanmar’s ‘unwashed’ jade miners buried by disaster

Five Yay Ma Hsay — or ‘unwashed’ as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known — arrived early Thursday at the pit to scrape out a living on a scraggy hillside, lured by the prospect of finding a stone that could transform their lives. But only three would return, the others victims of Myanmar’s […]

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