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Month June 2008

World Refugee Day

Today we celebrated World Refugee Day with some help from the local Indianapolis Burmese community, as well as local supporters of Burma and Digital Democracy.  We hosted an event at the Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis with over 250 attendees.  Highlights included our presentation of our own work on Burma’s borders, several refugee [...]

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Published In Nuvo!

Our article “Year of the Rats” was published in this week’s NUVO, an independent Indianapolis newspaper (“Indy’s Alternative Voice”).  In it we document the disturbing famine that looms over the Northwest Burmese State of Arakan and the neighboring Indian state of Mizoram.  The famine is the consequence of a 50-year cycle of bamboo forests blossoming [...]

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