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Naw Moo Wa recalls the events and emotions of a January 17, 2010 Burma army attack on her village from a temporary home in Kler Lwee Htu District, Karen State, Burma on November 21, 2010. Naw Moo Wa lost her husband to a gunshot wound during the attack. Her home and all of her possessions were destroyed and burned by the Burma army. She escaped with her six children.
The Karen or Kayin State of...
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Burma {Development or Destruction} Work in...
Villagers deep within Karen State, Burma are finding the livelihoods of traditional agriculture they have known for hundreds of years to be ever evolving as lower elevation, plain areas fill with unannounced water from massive SPDC hydropower projects. In contrast to the usual, more abrasive work of Tatmadaw guns and soldiers, residents of the Leh Wa Township are this time being passively nudged...
November 2010
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Burma {Orphan & Outcast} The Palong
The Palong tribal people have long fled from their native soil in Burma seeking safety and refuge in the protected mountains of Northern Thailand. Although now distant from the bloody crossfire between the SPDC and the Shan State resistance armies, they face the new challenge of expatriation in a less than welcoming nation. It is here they remain stateless, separated and in staggering populations...