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The Last of the Spider Women

“The tattoo spanned the entirety of their faces, including the eyelids, which must have been painful to experience at the age of nine when the tattoos had been done”

n June 2018, a small group of us took a three-hour, one-way journey on the Lemyo River from Mrauk-U in Rahkine state to the remote Chin Villages, just a few kilometres from the border

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