Hundreds of civil war victims treated every day as Myanmar chaos spills over Thailand border

Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, a frontier town along the border with Myanmar, is a harrowing window into a civil war that has suddenly escalated. In the searing heat of early morning, the wards are packed full of patients, some with catastrophic injuries. We walk into a room full of amputees, many recently injured by airstrikes and landmines. Lying on a bed with his stomach held together by a bandage, we meet Maung Maung. His voice is incredibly strained, and he can hardly move. He’s just lost his two daughters. One was two years old, the other 14. “They…