These images are some of our favourites from Burma and the Thailand-Burma border. They have been taken in the cities and rural countryside, in refugee camps and ethnic opposition army camps, in government controlled as well as liberated areas.
We want to share these images with as large audience as possible. Contact us if you would like to use our pictures and/or you want more information about them. We will regularly keep adding new images so make sure to come back soon to check out the gallery!
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- Buddha image inside a temple near Inwa, Mandalay Region. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- U Bein Bridge, Amarapura, Mandalay Region. 1.2 km teak bridge, built with columns from the old palace. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Bagan, Mandalay Region. View from Swesandaw pagoda, a popular sunset destination. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Muddy streets in Zone C during the rainy season
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- View of Mae La
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- KNLA soldiers alongside local villagers celebrating Revolution Day. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Camp library where refugees have access to uncensored materials
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- A colourful display of Karen bags in a Buddhist monastery. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Burman woman wearing thanaka. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Children playing in Umpiem Mai where rumours of repatriation are sweeping through communities. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- KNLA
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- Three Main National Causes Sign in Hpa-An
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- Woman hanging a poster of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi after cleaning it, Nyaung U jetty. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- World’s largest reclining Buddha
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- Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) soldiers preparing for the Revolution Day parade. KNLA, the armed wing of KNU took up arms against the Burma army on January 31, 1949, celebrated as the Revolution Day ever since. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Karen students from Nu Poe refugee camp performing traditional Don Dance on Karen Revolution Day on January 31, 2013. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- The Burmese border town of Myawaddi opposite to Mae Sot in Tak Province, Thailand, is a major cross-border trade hub largely due to Asian highway that connects Rangoon to the border. (Photo: Ariana Zarleen)
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- School in Umpiem Mai refugee camp. Many people of Burma cross the border to Thailand for their children to get the opportunity to attend schools. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Monks playing caneball
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- Karen students with a picture of a Karen hero Saw Ba U Gyi. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- A motorbike loaded with foodstuffs at the morning market in Hsipaw, Shan State. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Burma Link AOC training at Wide Horizons school in Mae Sot
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- FILE PHOTO: The KNDO Major General Nerdah Bo Mya giving an interview at the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) headquarters in October, 2014. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Refugee who spent 30 years without seeing his family
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- Shan village children near Hsipaw, Shan state. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Mae La camp as seen from the road. (Photo: Burma LInk)
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- Woman and child who live in Mae Sot rubbish dump
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- A Karen woman weaving traditional textiles that are commonly worn by the Karen, especially on special occasions
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- AOC training
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- Karen Don dancers performing for Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) soldiers at the KNLA headquarters. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Vendors await the arriving train in Hsipaw, Shan State. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Fisherman in Moulmein
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- A woman praying at Sule Pagoda, Rangoon. This pagoda was a rallying place during both the 8888 uprising and the Saffron revolution. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Refugees plead for UN registration on the World Refugee Day in June 2012
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- Praying
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- Wrist tying day
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- Child in a rural Pwo Karen village in Hpa-an Township, Karen State. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Posters encouraging refugees to register their baby
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- Sunrise at Kyaik Htee Yoe
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- Boy throws the rope as the boat arrives at Bilu Island
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- Watching football in Mae La
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- Monk taking a picture of the Golden Rock in Kyaik Htee Yoe, Mon State
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- Children at Mae Sot rubbish dump
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- Pipeline in Hsipaw, northern Shan State. Pipelines from Burma to China have resulted in widespread land confiscation, environmental destruction, forced labour and other severe human rights abuses and more IDPs in northern Shan State. (Photo: Feliz Solomon)
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- Posters of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi can now be displayed openly in Burma. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- View of the camp
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- KNLA soldiers
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- Watching football, a popular past time in Mae La
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- One of the many bridges
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- AOC training
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- Looking for recyclables
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- KNU/KNLA signed a preliminary ceasefire with the government in January 2012 but political dialogue addressing the root causes of conflict is yet to take place. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Karen Don dancer
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- Entrance to a Burmese military camp in Moulmein (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Karen soldier assembling his weapon after cleaning it. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Two sisters who have fled Burma and live in a Karen village on the Thai side of the border. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Golden rock
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- Burma Link AOC training in Mae La
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- Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Headquarters
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- KNLA soldiers visiting a local village located in a liberated are inside the Karen State. The KNU built the village for displaced Karen in 2012. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Nuns on alms round
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- Photo: Dingo / Burma Link AOC
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- Sleeping novice monk in a village in Karen State
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- Wrist tying ceremony is rooted in animist beliefs of calling back spirits. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Buddha images in Hpa-An
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- Karen freedom fighter
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- Monks having lunch on full moon day
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- Sunrise over the mountains
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- Bridge to Moulmein, capital of Mon State
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- Refugees continue their day-to-day life in the camps amidst growing fears that repatriation may be forced on them all too soon. (Photo: Feliz Solomon). This photo also appeared in Irrawaddy, 14013, September 14, 2012, http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/14013
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- Revolution Day celebrations on January 31, 2013, in a liberated area inside the Karen State. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- A young refugee boy in Mae La
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- AOC training
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- Lanslide damage
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- While international community praises government reforms, people in Burma’s borderlands are left to survive with the help of ethnic organisations. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- NLD office in Moulmein
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- NLD office in Moulmein
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- Displaying American life to refugees in Mae La. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Novice monks on their daily alms round in front of the white Pagoda in Mingun, Mandalay Region. (Photo: Liz Bordo)
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- Pupils in a school in Myawaddy, Karen State
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- Monastery in Mae La
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- Adopted monkey
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- Boys at the natural swimming pool in Hpa-An
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- Burmese military camp entrance in Mon State.
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- Houses in Mae La Zone C are built right next to each other due to space restrictions
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- Prejudiced beliefs are often passed on from one generation to the next. (Photo: Burma Link)
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- Thousands learn about their cultures as well as to read and write their own languages in Mae La camp
