Karen and Rohingya – Shared Legacy

Yet another sordid story of immigrant plight, like Rohingyas are thrown out of Myanmar, Karen, originally a tribe from Myanmar, are dislodged from Thailand. Painful with pathos. Worth a read and ponder why this is happening.

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‘When you’re doing the right thing, you have to keep fighting, even if it means you may lose your life.’. “And after he said that, I couldn’t ask him to stop,” she recalls.

“We Karens respect nature as our God. We worship a water God, a forest God and every living thing in the forest. Our farming technique is environmentally friendly. And we grow things we can consume all year round.

Thailand’s disappeared Karen activist Billy and the burned village
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50823872

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