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Wang Jia's life in the northern Myanmar city of Laukkai was the picture of normality. The 40-year-old mother of four watched her five-month-old son and her three other children. Her husband, a farmer, kept busy slaughtering pigs.
But when fighting erupted in early February between an ethnic Chinese militia and government troops, Wang and her husband piled what they could into their orange three-wheeled motorised cart and drove their children four hours south to Lashio, taking shelter at the Mansu Monastery.
"All our neighbours have left, and we've heard our house has been looted - the furniture and everything," Wang said, rocking her infant son in a makeshift hammock in the crowded barracks-style hall she shares with dozens of other families.
"We don't know when we can go home."
Wang is one of about 20,000 people - some walking up to 160km - who have come to Mansu Monastery in the last eight weeks as battles raged in northern Shan state.
Most quickly moved on to other accommodations, but more than 200 remained this week. Tens of thousands other refugees have crossed into China.