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"The oppression units would bring dogs, sticks and stun guns, they would electrocute and beat us," he said.

Cain shares his shock walking into one favela and seeing people openly selling drugs or walking around with guns "like it was normal".

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army, an armed rebel group, said that military troops shot at the convoy of nine vehicles with machine guns in eastern Shan State.

Officials also installed fencing along Alvarado Street in an effort, they said, to put the brakes on the sale of stolen goods — including drugs and guns — by some street vendors.

In recent weeks, cars have been set ablaze with Molotov cocktails, shot with guns and defaced with spray-paint.