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Locked in Burma      Similar

After 13 years of detention, Aung San Suu Kyi perfectly represents the suffering of the Burmese people, effectively trapped in the world’s biggest prison. Pressure is building on the UN to act. Simon Tisdall in The Guardian: It is hard to imagine what life must be like for Aung San Suu Kyi, locked up inside her [...]
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Kawthoolei: The Karen’s long wait      Similar

Italian photojournalist Massimiliano Clausi in Himal: For the past thirty years, millions of Karen villagers in Burma have been living a precarious existence, regularly being displaced from their huts into the surrounding forests and state-controlled relocation sites. All the while, the Karen have continued to struggle against a military-run state that exerts absolute control over their [...]
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Burning Man 2008      Similar

BLACK ROCK CITY, NV. This year was my—cough—twelfth Burning Man, and my time there was, for once, dominated by continuity rather than novelty. With some important exceptions, I was drawn less to plunge into new experiences than to enjoy and re-affirm the people and places that already had a claim on my heart and my imagination. My most transformative and exquisite moments nearly all took place with people and within confines I was basically familiar with—which is another way of saying that, for me anyway, the playa has become less like an undiscovered Wonderland and more like the Jersey sho...
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