Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB)

About this original series

Burma is a deeply wounded country. In rural areas, there is an ongoing civil war currently in its sixth decade. Greatly fuelled by successive dictatorships since 1962, the military targets women and ethnic minority peoples who suffer from systematic human rights violations including rape, murder, torture and slavery. Following the 1988 democratic uprising and brutal crackdown, the pro-democracy movement was taken to the border areas by many young people fleeing arrest and vowing to continue the struggle. As a result of the dictatorship's brutal campaign against ethnic minority groups, hundreds of thousands have fled to Thailand with similar numbers in India and Bangladesh. Education is a basic right denied to the people of Burma.

• # Episodes

  28 episodes

• Rating

  TV-G