Mac McClelland first volunteered to help refugees from Burma in Thailand, then ended up living with them. Telling their stories and situations she published her book, For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War.
The government in Burma has been waging a genocide on the internally displaced persons, IDP's, for the war their ethnic minority has fought against the government for the past sixty years.
Stunning figures of child mortality rates, one in five Burmese children dies before the age of 5, plague the IDP's.
They are forced to flee their villages due to the Burmese troops invasion; with no homes to go back to the refugees are forced to the Thailand border.
As hard as the lives are for the people taking refuge in Thailand, the people whom are not allowed through are trapped in an terrain of fear and loathing.
One of their few protectors are a roving army of American ex-Special Forces soldiers.
Source : Alternet.org
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Wow this is terrible.
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