Ethnic Rakhine girls play with water as they celebrate Thingyan, Myanmar’s new year water festival, in central Yangon

Ethnic Rakhine girls play with water as they celebrate Thingyan, Myanmar’s new year water festival, in central Yangon, April 15, 2011. Myanmar celebrates the festival during the month of Tagu, which usually falls around mid-April, to usher the new year on the following day. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR – Tags: SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY)