“to help out the people of Karen”...
Karen is not a place…
but a group of people that have named themselves Karen that live in southern Burma and are currently engaged in civil war.
read many posts about people not wanting to visit Burma or not go back if they did visit already, because of the political situation.
my boyfriend is Karen, a refugee from Burma, and also served in this war. the Karen, since WWII have been trying to claim land for themselves from the oppressive Burmese.
there are other minority groups as well, that face these problems. they are being forced to live as the Burmese or Thai, giving up their own unique cultures, that soon, may not be in excistence on this planet.
it’s a very sad story, and scary that it is real and happening right now in this world.