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'EATING RATS': MYANMAR'S SECOND LOCKDOWN DRIVES HUNGER
After the first wave of coronavirus hit Myanmar in March, 36-year-old Ma Suu closed her salad stall and pawned her jewellery and gold to buy food to eat.
During the second wave, when the government issued a stay-home order in September for Yangon, Ma Suu shut her stall again and sold her clothes, plates and pots.
With nothing left to sell, her husband, an out of work construction labourer, has resorted to hunting for food in the open drains by the slum where they live on the outskirts of Myanmar's largest city.
“People are eating rats and snakes,” Ma Suu said through tears. “Without an income, they need to eat like that to feed their children.”
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