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Originally Posted by icarus
BTW, Myanmar is a name used by the cultural group to which the military rulers belong. Thus most other cultural groups would rather call the country by its British colonial name, Burma. This I learned from a great and very friendly group of Burmese refugees in Calgary when I was with Amnesty called the Mon cultural group.
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My girlfriend is volunteering for the Calgary Immigration Society, and is helping a refugee Karen family from Burma. They have shown us DVD's of the way the current governement treats them; rapes women, burns villages, kills for no reason and forces the Karen to live in fear running thru the forest trying to find food. It brings a tear to the eye everytime.