In the summer of 2006, four friends from San Diego, California set out on a mission to expose the atrocities being done to the people of Burma, more specifically, the Karen people – one of the country’s largest ethnic groups. Burma has quietly been host to the world’s longest running civil war – waged between the country’s military dictatorship and detractors from the regime.
Burma is a closed country known for strong penalties including imprisonment for people found inside its borders without the proper documentation. However, they knew that in order to capture the story they needed, they would have to sneak across the border through Thailand. With backpacks filled with borrowed film equipment they set out without a clue of how they would break inside a countryside filled with landmines, Burmese soldiers, and wet season torrential weather. They didn’t know what they would find, or if anyone would listen to their story when they returned.
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Well done video better than Hollywood.
I recently heard about this film from a friend who suggested I write a paper on this issue. Glad I’m now educated. Keep up what you’re doing.
Wow. Your hope for this film to impact people to make a change has definatly worked.
I spent the last 7 weeks in Thailand ( I actually spent some time with that pastor you mention at the start, the one who takes in karen children. amazing amazing man for the record )
and after seeing all of that I NEED to go back and want to show this film to everyone I know to tell about this silent war.
Thanks for fighting the good fight. powerful stuff.
cried so hard through the whole thing, absolutely amazing video,well done, you should be so proud of yourselves!!! i’ll definately be sharing it with as many people as i can,we need to carry on publisizing the goings on in Burma and try bring justice to these amazing people and land.
thank you so much!!
Wow! This is a great! video. As a young Karen, this video gave me motivation to keep striving and work hard in school, so that one day I can go back and help my fellow Karen people. My tears felt through the whole video, I can’t do anything for them as of now, but I can only do one thing is to PRAY for them. I wanna thank Dustin, Dave, Brett, and Bryan for this Great! Video. May God continue to bless, and proctect you. Thank you
Very nice information.
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I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Thank you. A 15 year old Karen friend sent me this link. It is very moving. We are members of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and we are attending the annual summer conference in Harrisonburg, VA July 4-9. We are hoping to take 7 Karen youth with us. This is a gathering of about 300 persons, all interested in the spread of Peace for all persons. We would like to show your video at this conference. Do you have a DVD that we could obtain so that it shows more smoothly than the link? If so, we would be thrilled to know who to get it. Thank you from my deepest heart for what you have done. We are your partners in this endeavor. ALice Adams
This movie is really sad and make me cry. ):
Wonderful. The Karen and the people and country of Myanmar has been my favorite place and people on my world travels. Thank you for the movie and the telling. Thank you.
how can i download this movie….? So I can share and educate ppl.
Thanks for making this film to make a change and bring a difference in Burma (Myanmar)that we all are hoping for.
Well i was happy that you made this movie (Sorry for bad english….. still young). Thank you for helping Karen people it really mean allot to us
This summer I am working with a group of high school students who are doing service learning at the Minnesota Literacy Council in St. Paul. The majority of the students they are working with are Karen. This video will help our students learn about where they have come and what they have overcome . Very powerful and heartfelt movie. Thank you.
A church (TLC, Melbourne, Australia) that my friend goes to is helping some Karen people and she suggested we look at this film. It is harrowing and difficult to watch, but incredibly worthwhile. The Karen are amazing and their story punches us with a load of perspective. Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFhbzRto328
You guys are so brave! Also, thank you so much bring the news of these terrible experiences of Karen’s to the world! I’m glad I’m Karen because of this video. God be with you in all of your work!
Amazing footage. Keep up the fight.
My school, University of Maryland, had a screening of this film two days ago. The work you guys did left everyone, including me, speechless. A really really powerful film. Thank you.
Hi, guys. Important story well told.
We made a short documentary about this aswell for Norwegian television back in 2002 so just wanted to support your story. Our experiences were the same as yours. The couragous Karen people are not easily forgotten.
I CRY WHEN I SAW THIS AS A KAREN PPL I WISH I CAN HELP MY OWN PPL.. THANKS FOR U GUYS THE HEART OF SHOWING THE TRUTH..
I am a missionary here in Thailand and just recently was at the Mae La Refugee camp and afterwards watched this video…I can not tell you the impact this video had on me after seeing the camp and being with the people. Seeing how happy and content with life they are after all they have been through is an extremely humbling experience. If I would have watched this video before I went there, I think I would have been a wreck. What you all are doing is an amazing thing, keep it up.
Thanks Erica, we really appreciate the love.