Nowhere to be home : narratives from survivors of Burma's military regime

Decades of military oppression in Burma have led to the systematic destruction of thousands of ethnic minority villages, a standing army with one of the world's highest number of child soldiers, and the displacement of millions of people. Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called "the textbook example of a police state." oral,history;,human,rights;,Burma;,Myanmar oral history,human rights,Burma,Myanmar CONTENTS 10 FOREWORD 12 INTRODUCTION 16 METHODOLOGY 26 THAILAND 30 KYAW ZWAR 32 BYIN PU 60 NGE NGE 86 MA SU MON 112 KNOO KNOW 140 SAW MOE 164 KHINE SU 186 NAW MOE WAI 204 MALAYSIA 212 AYE MAUNG 215 KHINE KYAW 235 PA TLUANG 253 KO MG MG 269 TAN HTAY 283 BANGLADESH 289 FATIMA 291 HLA MIN 313 U KHAMA INDA 329 BURMA 343 AUNTIE HLA 345 KHIN LWE 355 YUN 373 PHILIP 383 USA 393 LAW EH SOE 395 U AGGA NYA NA 417 EPILOGUE 443 APPENDICES 447 I. ACRONYMS 448 II. GLOSSARY 450 III. NAME CHANGES, BURMA VS. MYANMAR 453 IV. GEOGRAPHY 454 V. ETHNICITY 455 VI. HISTORY OF BURMA: TIMELINE 456 VII. NON-STATE ARMED GROUPS 459 VIII. A BRIEF HISTORY OF BURMA 460 IX. THE THREE PRIMARY ACTORS 475 X. BURMESE IN THAILAND 477 XI. MAE TAO CLINIC 479 XII. THE ROHINGYA: STATELESS PEOPLE 480 XIII. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT TOTHE UNITED STATES 484 XIV. BURMESE REFUGEES IN MALAYSIA 486 XV. EDITOR’S NOTE FROMLAW EH SOE’S STORY 488 XVI. LEARN MORE ABOUT BURMA 489 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 493 ABOUT THE EDITORS 497