A Secret Genocide (2007)

Foreigners are not allowed in South Burma. This is Karen territory, an ethnic minority brutalized by the Burmese authorities. For sixty years, in the midst of this hostile jungle, the KNLA, the Karen national Liberation Army, has fought a desperate war against the military junta in power. The Burmese generals have decided to cleanse the Karen country. The SPDC, the Burmese army, focuses its attacks on civilians. Whole battalions raid villages. Soldiers burn, loot, rape, execute and torture the inhabitants. There are now 300.000 Karen refugees attempting to survive in the mountains on the Thai border, some 750 miles long. Refugees suffer from malnutrition, malaria and are killed or maimed by mines. No humanitarian organization is allowed in this part of Burma, no food or medical aid has been planned for them and the Thai border police try their best to stop anyone from crossing the border. Karen civilians are the first victims of the eradication policy concerning ethnic minorities in Burma. Hundreds of thousands of them find themselves in the middle of nowhere, exposed to certain death. Only the KNLA soldiers can help them. The Karen people live in complete distress some dozen miles away from western tourists visiting Thailand. The Karen people are dying completely unnoticed. We entered Burma illegally, and managed to follow Karen fighters for several weeks. We were the witnesses of a secret genocide.