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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