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A woman smiles next to her father wearing a National League of Democracy uniform.

"Officials say the prison wasn't hit by the quake, that there's nothing wrong, but how can that be when in the same city there is destruction everywhere?"

A man in saffron jacket sitting next to Aung San Suu Kyi in white.

A woman with short black hair stands near a golden tower-like pagoda.

Red and gold smashed remains of a pagoda.

Men and women sit on hospital beds.

"We couldn't reach anyone. We just had to wait,"
she said.

A lone yellow brick house remains surrounded by rubble.

People queue for food and relief supplies.

"People are starving, injured and homeless, and yet they have to go through military checkpoints just to receive help,"
she said.

A woman in purple traditional long Myanmar dress.

Two kids run past destroyed building.

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