AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU
Mawlamyine, Myanmar - February 13, 2017: 14-year old Khin Khin Tun poses to show deep scars on her back at Mawlamyine, some 300 kms southeast of Yangon. Khin Khin Tun's back is a patchwork of burns, searing memories she says from when her former employer poured two flasks of boiling water over her flesh -- one for each orange she was accused of stealing.
Photo of the Day: February 17, 2017“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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