I’ve visited the garbage dump many times over the course of several months in 2008-2009 while filming for my documentary. Fred and I had the idea to create a movie to get some awareness to raise some money for supplies for the inhabitants of the… Read more
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Interview with Khin Cho Myint, a former political prisoner:
Khin Cho Myint was detained for five years and nine months, because of her activity in a democratic student union.
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Interview with Aung Kgaw: Aung Kgaw has spent 14 years in prison, because he was a member of a democratic party in Burma. AAPPB (2006) Eight Seconds of Silence: The Burmese government, like most dictatorships, does it best to hide the crimes it… Read more
As I earn the refugees’ trust, they invite me into their huts. I went into one shack near the dump that houses a family of eight. There was a little girl who was crouched down on the bare floor. She was beautiful but sad. Her mother called her… Read more
(Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC.org) 2009) Mae La is also known as ‘Beh Klaw’ in Karen, which means ‘cotton field’ due to the agricultural activities for which Karen leaders first negotiated permission for refugees to cross into… Read more
