Two freed, but countless others still enslaved by armed groups
Two young women who were the focus of a Myanmar Times investigation this month into mass abductions of civilians by ethnic armed groups have been freed by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).
Ma Nang Htwe Yin and Nang Kyan Kham, both 20-year-old ethnic Shan pre-school teachers, were released by the powerful armed group on 14 February–seven weeks after they were abducted by the KIA on their way to a festival in Nant Onn in northern Shan State and forced to join their troops.
