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on the Borderline: Surviving Genocide in BurmaFor more than 40 years the military regime of Burma has waged genocide against the estimated 20 million Karen, Shan, Mon and other ethnic people of Burma. The junta uses rape, torture, landmines, slavery and murder to force these people from their homes in order to exploit the riches of their lands. The international community, for the most part, has looked the other way. Some have managed to escape Burma and now, as refugees, they are imprisoned and forgotten in primitive camps along the Thai/Burma border. Haunted by the horror of their past in ...

Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake.