Karen on Vice

  • We Don’t Always Get the War We Want

    It’s four in the morning on my 38th birthday, and I am staring up at the thatched roof of a small jungle clinic in Karen State of eastern Burma, the home of the world’s longest-running armed conflict—a 63-year civil war between the Burmese army and the ethnic Karen people. Full story

    2012 Dec 29 Rob Swain News
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  • Ghosts of the Jungle

    Burma's Karen National Liberation Army is the most effective guerrilla fighting force active today. They usually don’t take too kindly to outsiders, especially those with cameras, but somehow I—a curious Canadian photographer—managed to embed with the KNLA’s Special Forces divisi… Full story

    2012 Sep 4 Bryan Dickie Travel
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