Child's View of Burma's Civil War. Anna Sussman.
by Sussman, Anna; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 68Global Issues. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Burma -- Ethnic relations | Burma -- Politics and government | Child soldiers | Civil war | Human rights -- Burma | Refugees -- BurmeseDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In a jungle encampment, 9-year-old Saw and his 12-year-old brother, Paw, were trained to kill. They learned to plant land mines, reload rifles, and carefully fill homemade grenades. The brothers were forced to fight alongside as many as 70,000 other children in Burma, the Southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar, which is thought to have one of the largest number of child soldiers in the world. Last September [2004], Saw and Paw managed to escape through the jungle to a temporary orphanage on the Thai side of the border. They live with hundreds of other children, orphans of the 50-plus years of civil war between the Burmese military government and an ethnic tribe of 5 million people called the Karen." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article presents the young brothers' "harrowing tale of conflict--and escape."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Child's View of Burma's Civil War, June 22, 2005; pp. n.p..
"In a jungle encampment, 9-year-old Saw and his 12-year-old brother, Paw, were trained to kill. They learned to plant land mines, reload rifles, and carefully fill homemade grenades. The brothers were forced to fight alongside as many as 70,000 other children in Burma, the Southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar, which is thought to have one of the largest number of child soldiers in the world. Last September [2004], Saw and Paw managed to escape through the jungle to a temporary orphanage on the Thai side of the border. They live with hundreds of other children, orphans of the 50-plus years of civil war between the Burmese military government and an ethnic tribe of 5 million people called the Karen." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article presents the young brothers' "harrowing tale of conflict--and escape."
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