The Generals’ Genocide Click here to watch this programme... NB:
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only. In an age when we have almost become immune to the loss of
life from war, Mu Ko Lay’s story of the death and burial of her
two young sons in the jungle as she and her village were being
pursued by the Burmese military is as stark and emotionally
wrenching account as one is likely to hear. Through
uncontrollable sobs, she described how she buried her children
“like dogs” as she and the village fled for their lives. But her
story is just one of many in a country that has been in the grip
of military rulers since 1962. Burma has a population of 55
million people, ruled by a military junta headed by Than Shwe.
The junta renamed the country Myanmar, but few recognize the
name. For sixty years now since Burma got its independence from
Britain in 1948, a civil war has raged in what is now the
world’s longest civil war. We entered the country illegally to
meet with some of the Karen