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A family rests on a concrete floor at an internally displaced person camp near Laiza, Burma on July 4, 2011. Over 8,000 Kachin civilians have fled to a handful of these locations in a KIA (Kachin Independence Army) controlled area near the Burma China border. Those displaced are receiving temporary housing, food, medical care and basic education by the KIO (Kachin Independence Organization).
(Names and exact locations withheld for security)
A family eats meager portions of rationed rice, chilies and a wild foraged cucumber in their new, temporary home in Dooplaya District, Karen State, Burma on December 12, 2010 . After fleeing from a Burma army attack, around 36 families were left with little to eat but what could be carried on their backs or found in the surrounding jungle, leaving them no food security or safe farmland for the weeks to come. (Names and exact locations withheld for security)
A man carries a bag with rice and clothes in Dooplaya District, Karen State, Burma on December 12, 2010 . This man, along with over 200 others are living internally displaced as of earlier this month, leaving behind their homes and everything they own that could not be swiftly carried. Seen in the background are the temporary shelters they will call home for who knows how long, constructed of only green bamboo and a single tarp. (Names and exact locations withheld for security)
A man boils water from a nearby creek in a newly fashioned bamboo container over a fire in Dooplaya District, Karen State, Burma on December 11, 2010 . This man, along with over 200 others are living internally displaced as of only 5 days ago, leaving behind their homes and everything they own that could not be swiftly carried.
For fear of being arrested into forced labor or human minesweeper duty, they have fled from their villages through heavily landmined areas as an additional 3 battalions of Burma army troops arrived. Far from safety but well hidden among dense jungle, this new IDP (internally displaced person) site rests a mere 9 miles from the heart of the fighting in this area. (Names and exact locations withheld for security)
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 from their farms and villages day by day as a murky, creeping water that arrived only 2 months ago continues to steadily swell. Washing away and eventually wholly submerging the sole income for thousands of families, compensation is only inadvertently offered for those entrepreneurs quickest to adapt in what could be the birthing of a new marine economy.
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