If I explained how I became a political organizer, I would have to tell you my whole life story. Ever since 1988, I feel like the military regime took me, put me in a pot, and has been shaking me around.
– Kyaw Zwar, Narrator
Dear Voice of Witness Readers,
Political prisoner. Refugee. Child soldier. Trafficked woman. It’s hard to understand Burma’s human rights crisis when entire lives are reduced to labels and sound bites. Whether it was in a makeshift refugee camp hidden in the jungle outside Kuala Lumpur or a bustling Starbucks in Bangkok, the people from Burma who’ve told us their entire life stories remind us that Burma isn’t a country of human rights abuses - it’s a country …
