Mandalay, Myanmar ¨C Six Myanmar war widows speak softly of their grief as they walk inside the crumbling walls of Mandalay Palace, fresh arrivals in an earthquake-wracked city strained anew by conflict.
¡°We feel more freedom here,¡± said one among them, all widows of dead soldiers.
She was evacuated from her hometown, which was ¡°ruined by war,¡± to the improbable refuge of a military-run quake recovery zone several months after it struck.
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