New Zealand Herald: Child soldier seeks help to reunite family, Lincoln Tan, 24 August 2011 Article documents the experience of a Burmese youth picked up at age 14 and conscripted into the Burmese Army. He escaped in 2001 when he was 15. During his time in the military he saw another Read more…
Aljazeera: 101 East: The world’s longest ongoing war, 10 August 2011 Video report, documents the ongoing war in Karen State. Visits camps of both internally displaced people and refugees along the Burma-Thai border. Interviews with two farmers being treated at the Mae Tao Clinic on the Burma-Thai border, who had Read more…
Irrawaddy: Landmines: A Dangerous Way to Feel Secure, Sai Zom Hseng, 12 August 2011 Article focuses on the experience of Sotay Lo, a former rebel with the Karenni National Progressive Party who was blinded by his own mine in 1996, and now lives in a refugee camp in Thailand. In the Read more…