Burmese Day

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Here are some old pictures from a trip I took to Myanmar for a visa run. I was only there for a day but it was definitely an experience. I crossed over from Mai Sot, a relatively well-off border town with nice restaurants, hotels and internet cafes to a vastly different place.

Myanmar's military government has a strangle-hold on the country and it's people. They've committed horrendous human rights violations and turned Myanmar, once the richest county in Asia, into the poorest. To give you an idea of how poor, the first thing I saw when I walked through the border was a car-sized crater in the middle of the road and a goat walking aimlessly down the sidewalk.


To get a better idea of what’s going on there you can check out soros.org/burma. It's got a lot of information and a cool audio documentary about life in a Thai refugee camp.

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