Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime (Voice of Witness #6)

Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime (Voice of Witness #6)

Maggie Lemere (Editor), Zoe West (Editor), Mary Robinson (Foreword by)
$16.00
Publication Date: March 20th, 2011
Publisher:
McSweeney's
ISBN:
9781936365029
Pages:
495
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Description

Decades of military oppression in Burma have led to the systematic destruction of thousands of ethnic minority villages, a standing army with one of the world's highest number of child soldiers, and the displacement of millions of people.

Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called "the textbook example of a police state.

About the Author

Maggie Lemere has traveled and worked in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She holds an MA in international peace and conflict resolution from American University in Washington, D.C. Maggie focuses her writing and photography projects on issues of human rights and social concern. Zoë West is a writer whose work investigates social issues and cultural exchange. Zoë grew up in the United States and has since lived and worked in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Central America. She is pursuing graduate studies in social anthropology at the University of Oxford.

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