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The festivities also include leg-rowing boat races with each boat carrying 40-100 rowers.
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Hundreds of local residents on Thursday observed the activities from small craft on the lake, and more from onshore.
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The festival is being celebrated despite armed conflict across much of Myanmar, as the army seeks to quash resistance to its takeover in February 2021 that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Thousands of people have died in the conflict and more than a million have been uprooted by army offensives.
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