The War That Never Ends

For nearly 60 years, civil war has stormed against the Karenic and other ethnical minorities as they have sought independence from Burma’s military machine regime. Their Christian religion has carried them through years of persecution, hiding out and waiting. Village relocations, forced labor, land mines, rape and murder are common. Villagers who are able flee into the jungles, some of the times live for years on the run.

Now, about 163,000 Karen people are crowded together into nine refugee camps along the Thailand-Burma border.