One of the smallest ethnic armies in Myanmar is on high-alert after renewed fighting between government forces and various ethnic minority groups.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army is also on a mission to eliminate the hundreds of opium farms scattered along Myanmar's border with China.
Al Jazeera's Florence Looi reports from Yangon.
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