US EditionTradition stokes pollution at Myanmar 'slash and burn' festival
- Tha Yu villagers perform a ceremony celebrating a hillside inferno in Myanmar.
- This annual event involves slash-and-burn farming, clearing land for new crops.
- Villagers feel forced into this tradition lacking technology or training for alternatives.
- Youth leader Joseph states, "It's the only way we survive."
- Pollution from these fires adds to health problems in war-torn Myanmar.
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The Straits TimesTradition stokes pollution at Myanmar ‘slash and burn’ festival
A charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene. But the villagers who set it ablaze dance below in a ceremony celebrating the inferno as a moment of regeneration and hope. "It's a tradition from our ancestors," said Joseph, a youth leader from Tha Yu
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Tradition stokes pollution at Myanmar 'slash and burn' festival
A charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.
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