Sister Ester keeps several small plastic bags of colourful methamphetamine – or meth – tablets beside her bed, along with a pistol and a plastic box of bullets.
“All of these items were seized by our group in raids on houses selling drugs over the past few weeks,” she says.
A Christian ethnic Kachin nurse in her 60s, she says she has nowhere else to keep the haul.
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A senior nurse providing healthcare to the people of Mone Paw village in Muse township, Ester also leads an anti-drug movement called Hkam Sha Hpung, which translates from the Kachin language as “those who can’t stand the situation”. The group calls itself “group of mothers” in Burmese.
Her village is in an area that was partially controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) until 2011, when a 17-year ceasefire between the group and Myanmar’s military
broke down.
Better than just shooting them I guess.