Born on the Run

Description: 

A photojournalist put aside his camera to comfort a young Karen woman at the birth of her son in a jungle hideout... "It was a makeshift village on the Thai side of the Moei River bordering Burma and Thailand, about 60 miles north of the Thai border town of Mae Sot. Around 100 Karen lived there, so-called ?internally displaced persons,” refugees from the excesses committed by the Burmese army and the equally feared troops of the regime-backed Democratic Karen Buddhist Army..."

Creator/author: 

Dai Kurokawa

Source/publisher: 

"The Irrawaddy" Vol 15, No. 9

Date of Publication: 

2007-09-00

Date of entry: 

2008-05-02

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Language: 

English

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