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      <title>Mo So Massacre: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve 2021 should have been unremarkable on the Moso-Koi Ngan Road. Vehicles moved along the rural highway in Hpruso Township, carrying ordinary people through the hills of Kayah State in eastern Myanmar. By nightfall, more than forty of them were dead, their bodies burned beyond recognition in their own vehicles. The Mo So Massacre -- sometimes called the Christmas Eve Massacre -- became one of the most documented atrocities of Myanmar's post-coup civil war, a moment when the scale of military violence against civilians became impossible for the world to ignore.]]></description>
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      <title>Mo So Massacre: A Road Through the Hills</title>
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      <title>Mo So Massacre: The Afternoon of 24 December</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than a hundred soldiers from the Myanmar Army's 66th Light Infantry Division moved from Demoso toward Hpruso, where they stopped individuals traveling on the Moso-Koi Ngan Road. Four members of the Karenni National People's Liberation Front, an ethnic armed organization then...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Save the Children confirmed that two of its staff members were among the dead, and the organization temporarily suspended operations in parts of Myanmar. The United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, called the massacre "horrific" and deman...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The massacre's consequences rippled beyond international condemnation. The killing of the four KNPLF soldiers -- members of an organization that had been cooperating with the military under the Border Guard Forces arrangement -- enraged the KNPLF's ranks. For years, the KNPLF had...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Moso-Koi Ngan Road still runs through the forested hills of Hpruso Township, connecting small communities in one of Myanmar's most remote states. From the air, Kayah State appears as an unbroken canopy of green, its mountains folding into one another with few visible signs of...]]></description>
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