Burma

North Carolina is home to a growing Karen community, an ethnic minority from Burma that has been forced out of their country due to war. Many of these…

North Carolina is home to a growing Karen community, an ethnic minority from Burma that has been forced out of their country due to war. Many of these…

For most of the past 50 years, Myanmar has been under a military dictatorship and subsequently cut off from the western world. But the country is now in a…

For most of the past 50 years, Myanmar has been under a military dictatorship and subsequently cut off from the western world. But the country is now in a…

Some refugees in Chapel Hill are finding a way to reconnect with their native farming tradition.The Karen are a displaced ethnic minority from the…

This summer WUNC has been working with six youth reporters as part of the Summer Youth Radio Institute in our American Graduate Project. Akib Khan moved…

On 4 acres just outside Chapel Hill, nearly 150 Karen refugees till the soil as they did back home in Myanmar, also known as Burma.Transplanting…

On 4 acres just outside Chapel Hill, nearly 150 Karen refugees till the soil as they did back home in Myanmar, also known as Burma.Transplanting…