The Week India - July 29, 2018

JULY 29, 2018 • THE WEEK 13

PHOTO BY BHANU PRAKASH CHANDRA

SOWING

SOLIDARITY

Workers from Myanmar

transplanting rice

seedlings at Ban Nong O

village near the Tham

Luang cave in Mae Sai,

Thailand. Nearly 5,

acres of farmland were

fl ooded after water

was pumped out from

the cave, where 12

boys and their football

coach were trapped

for 18 days. The Thai

government announced

compensation, but

many farmers refused

it in solidarity with the

rescue operation.

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