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In this Jan 27 photo, flourishing poppy fields spread through hills at Nampatka village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Infantry army base and several police posts overlook waves of white and pink poppies in full bloom on both sides of the dusty road leading to Nampakta, blanketing the sloping valleys and jagged peaks as far as the eye can see. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, heroin and opium addicts and drug dealers gather at a road adjoining the cemetery to shoot up and draw at pipes at Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. The drug trade - and addiction - is running wild along the jagged frontier. In this village, roughly half the population uses. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 27 photo, a villager walks in a flourishing poppy field at Nampatka village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar. Myanmar, now emerging from a half-century of brutal military rule, was the world's biggest producer of opium, the main ingredient in heroin, until 2002, when focus started shifting to the manufacture of methamphetamines, now a booming trade in itself. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, an addict leans on a white tombstone as he shoots up heroin at a cemetery in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. More than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard every morning, rolling up their sleeves for quick fixes or drawing at pipes with no fear of reprisals. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan 28, 2014 photo, addicts use needles at a cemetery in Nampatka village, northeastern Shan State, Myanmar. Every morning, more than 100 heroin and opium addicts descend on the graveyard to get high. Some junkies lean on white tombstones, tossing dirty needles and syringes into the dry, golden grass. Others squat on the ground, sucking from crude pipes fashioned from plastic water bottles. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Feb. 27, 2014 photo, Rohingya women wash clothes in Thatkapyin village camp, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Thousands of Muslims from the persecuted ethnic minority were forced to flee to this dusty patch of land after sectarian violence erupted nearly two years ago when Buddhist mobs burned their homes. The segregated group faces health issues because they cannot easily access care at hospitals outside their encampment area. (AP Photo/Margie Mason)
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In this Jan. 17, 2014 photo, ethnic Rohingya people gather around a makeshift pharmacy in The' Chaung village in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Small pharmacies dot the road leading to several camps, but only people with money can afford basic medication. An underground group has been ferrying everything from antibiotics to aspirin and diarrhea medicine into the area using business channels, but it's far from enough. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Jan. 15, 2014 photo, a Rohingya child and an elder sibling stand in the foreground of Saytamar Gyi school in north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. According to a 2011 report by the European Community Humanitarian Office, even before the latest burst of violence erupted in June 2012, acute malnutrition rates in parts of northern Rakhine state reached 23 percent, far above the 15 percent emergency level set by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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In this Feb. 26, 2014 photo, Rohingya children play along a road in The' Chaung village, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Thousands of Muslims from the persecuted ethnic minority were forced to flee to this dusty patch of land after sectarian violence erupted nearly two years ago when Buddhist mobs burned their homes. The segregated group faces health issues because they cannot easily access care at hospitals outside their encampment area. (AP Photo/Margie Mason)
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In this Feb. 27, 2014 photo, a Rohingya man rides on a bus on near The' Chaung village, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Thousands of Muslims from the persecuted ethnic minority were forced to flee to this dusty patch of land after sectarian violence erupted nearly two years ago when Buddhist mobs burned their homes. The segregated group faces health issues because they cannot easily access care at hospitals outside their encampment area. (AP Photo/Margie Mason)
