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On the Burma Border
Year 2000; Length 10 minutes.

The very first video of our work taken in 2000 by our niece Dianne Becker, a photojournalist who has visited us several times in Asia. The video shows interviews with Dr. Cynthia, a refugee and a doctor who provides her services to all Burmese on a charity basis. It also shows an interview with Naw Tamla a refugee and the host of our first trip in 1992, and an interview with Tin Maung Latt, a student soldier in the uprising of 8/8/88.

With the Chin in Mizoram
Year 2007; Length 10 minutes.

We first visited Chin refugees in the millennium year 2000. We met a very different people in a situation of deep poverty. This video shows us visiting with Chin women and discussing our efforts to help poor children attend school. Also we show a trip to Zokhawthar which is located right on the Burma border. No Kap, a teacher from Champhai, talks about the recent refugees and their struggle with poverty. Finally we interview Pianga in Aizawl where he talks about the results of our work .

Come and See!
Year 2010; Length 6 minutes.

This video is an invitation to visit us in Thailand or in India. You would have the opportunity to meet our coworkers, the refugee people we serve and some of our project leaders. You will be able to see first hand how a small organization like ours works.

Travel time adds about 4 days to a trip, so if you wish to visit us for a week, set aside 11 days. If you do wish to go or just to talk about it, contact me by email at thomas.brackett@gmail.com, or phone (315) 824-3435.

India Coast Guard Rescues Rohingyas
Year 2008; Length 9 minutes.

Some have said the Rohingyas are the most wronged people on the face of the earth. It seems nobody wants them. This compelling video shows a rescue of Rohingyas cast out to drift at sea with no food or water. They are Muslims from southwest Burma.

Life in a UN Rohingya Camp
Year 2002; Length 4 minutes.

This video is about a relatively well-off Rohingya woman living in the a UN refugee camp in Bangladesh. She has a sewing machine and can sew so she can earn some money. Her children can go to school but it offers only 3 subjects.

The Life of a Rohingya
Year 2009; Length 3 minutes.

 

On Chin Starvation
Year 2009; Length 3 1/2 minutes.

Some who leave their country are not given refugee status by the UN because they have not left with a well founded fear of persecution. This video shows the Chin have a simple choice. Leave or die.

Aung San Suu Kyi on Rule of Law
Year 2000; Length 5 minutes.

This video was made available in 2011 by the Voice of America. It shows a message given by the grand lady of Burmese politics, on the necessity of a rule of law for the protection of human rights and the establishment of democracy. She ends with a plea to people throughout the world who support fairness and justice, to stay by the side of the people of Burma as they continue their struggle for democracy at the rule of law in their country.

Eyes of the Storm
Year 2009; Length 3 minutes.

The life of a small "family" -three surviving children- after cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawaddy delta of Burma.

The World's Longest ongoing Civil War
Year 2011; Length 25 minutes.

A very good video about the Karen insurgents fighting the Burma military. David Taka Baw vice president of the Karen National Union, tells why the fighting continues. You are taken across the border into Burma to listen to KNU soldiersgive their own stories of the fighting. Dr. Cynthia and Eh Thwa, both friends of ours also describe the difficulties of their continuing struggle.

Thank You!
Year 2010; Length 4 minutes.

Just a note of warm thank to all of you who have contributed so generously to our work.

The Kachin's Last Stand
Year 2011; Length 14 minutes.

Why the Kachin are still fighting for their freedom.