All Entries Tagged With: "Displaced"
The Karen Talk About Having To Flee Their Homes
Burma’s Karen unable to return home More than 4,000 ethnic Karen in eastern Burma have fled to Thailand after renewed fighting between Burmese government forces and Karen rebels. “ We are illegal here and eventually we’ll have problems with the Thai authorities ” Rainbow, Karen refugee Many of those who have fled over the past [...]
Ryan | Aug 18, 2009 | Comments 0
The Doctor, the Dictator, and the Deadly Mosquito
Saving lives in the jungle of death It’s just after 2 p.m. Filtered sunlight splashes through the teak forest, illuminating a network of stilted bamboo huts that stretches into the surrounding hills. Five neighborhoods are stitched together with pumpkin patches and banana groves, and enlivened by scavenging chickens, mud-soaked pigs, and packs of children dressed [...]
Ryan | Jun 19, 2009 | Comments 0
