CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- Once one of Southeast Asia's most marginalized groups -- hunting human heads within living memory -- Myanmar's Wa ethnic community has carved out a virtually independent nation for itself, fielding the largest nonstate army in Asia.
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A Wa soldier walks through a rice field where opium was once grown in Myanmar's Shan State. (Photo by Adam Oswell)
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