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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Naw Zipporrah Sein

Naw Zipporrah Sein
“The voices of many women striving for peace, freedom and equality among human beings shall be heard better and better and will become the most powerful voice in the world community.”
No human beings want to desert their homeland to seek refuge in other countries where they find their lives equally miserable, due to lack of recognition of their status, causing them to live in hiding day after day. But when death is imminent, fleeing is inevitable and they go with the hope that one day, when the sovereignty and freedom of their motherland is restored, they will be able to return.

Sein, an ethnic Karen women in her 50’s, is one such refugee. She is unmarried. Her lover, a member of the Faren army, was killed in battle. Born in Saw Kar Der Village, Kler Lweh Htoo District, Karen State, Burma, just a few years after the ethnic Karen started to fight Burmese troops in a bid to restore their sovereinity,