In ruins: Myo Zaw with his father Aung So Oo standing at the ruins of a monastery after the riverbank it was located on collapsed into the water in Ta Dar U village, Bago. — Reuters
Three years ago, the villagers watched as the Sittaung River on Myanmar’s southeast coast crept closer to them, swollen by powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of Mottama that eroded its banks.
Eventually, the 1,500 residents of Ta Dar U had to accept the inevitable: move or be washed away.
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