burma... within thailand

Mae Sot is a weird city... I don't know whether it's Padho Manh Sha being killed here last Thursday... or maybe it's just the usual atmosphere... ? People don't smile... Usually, you do the beginning of a smile, they smile back and you can make a huge...

This clinic was created by Dr. Cynthia, a Karen herself, who escaped Burma after the 1988 Uprising and the following crackdown who left 3,000 deads. The Burmese version of Tian An Men, but unknown. Dr Cynthia began by taking care of wounded students fleeing...

So I rent a motorbike, once again. I drove in the countryside, looking for the river but never daring to go. I know that, on the other side of it, just a few kilometers away from me, Karen rebels and the DKBA or the Tatmadaw had camp sites. You can actually...

The Moei River is the Thai-Burmese border on many kilometers, in the West of Thailand. Like everywhere else, like in Mae Sai... people cross the river quite freely. Smuggling people and goods from Burma. The police close its eyes, it also gets money out...

Mae Sot is one of the most known border town in Thailand. It's about 90km west of Tak and enables people to go to Burma, through the "Friendship Brigde" (yeah, sure... what else ?), right into the town of Myawaddy. Further west lies Rangoon. It takes...