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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: Resisting Until Victory
Description: Episode #191: Myra Dahgaypaw was born in a camp for internally displaced persons in Karen State. Yet there was no safety there. From infancy, she had to flee with her family to escape violence, facing gunfire, airstrikes, and landmines. No matter where they stopped, the Burmese military found them and forced them to flee again. Myra wondered why this was happening to her and her family, and began to see the Bamar people as monsters.Her parents died before she was a teenager, and she was raised by extended family in a Thai refugee camp, where safety was...