 An eyewitness report states that, at the time of the Depayin Massacre in May 2003, most of the victims killed were burnt and the remains dumped in the Mu river.Large-leaved deciduous hardwood of the Dipterocarpus spp., mainly D. tuberculatus, dominates in the forests mixed with some "ingyin" ("Pentacme suavis" and "Shorea oblongifolia"), "taukkyan" ("Terminalia tomentosa"), "thitsi" ("Melanorrhoea usitata"), bamboo, and "kaing" tall grass ("Saccharum" spp.