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	Min Latt, son of a Mon separatist-turned-smuggler who vanished in mysterious circumstances, has spent his life tracing stories of the dead
        
    
            
	Doyenne of the Kayin hills, Nancy Khaing kept her guesthouse open for years, defying isolation imposed by the army as it battled insurgents
        
    
            
	A child of conflict, Ko Lay could recognise the drum beat of artillery shells before he turned ten, memories that reverberate through his poetry 
        
    
            
	San Aung was perhaps the only living witness to one of Myanmar's most momentous historical events -- the 1947 Panglong conference
        
    




