DANGEROUS MISSION Wounded members of Pat Jasan, an anti-drug vigilante belonging to Myanmar’s hardline Christian northern Kachin state, recover, in a hospital in Myitkyina after a mission destroying opium plantation where some of their members where attacked by opium growers on Friday. AFP PHOTO
DANGEROUS MISSION Wounded members of Pat Jasan, an anti-drug vigilante belonging to Myanmar’s hardline Christian northern Kachin state, recover, in a hospital in Myitkyina after a mission destroying opium plantation where some of their members where attacked by opium growers on Friday. AFP PHOTO

MYITKYINA, Myanmar: Christian anti-drug vigilantes in Myanmar said Saturday they had halted a mission to raze poppy fields while at least 30 of their members were recovering from injuries sustained during violent clashes with unknown attackers this week.

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