those fleeing the military's crackdown on democracy it may not look like much but this rule forest campese become a sanctuary for me in march terrified protesters who although we had been protesting peacefully we had to run away because of the violent crackdown and we knew that if we were to get arrested the security forces would not let us live animal they would kill us. they arrived in the territory of one of the country's key armed to rebel groups the karen national liberation army the group controls large swathes of land on the border with thailand and has been fighting the central government for the last 70 years life in the camp is spartan among its new inhabitants striking teachers who see they had no choice but to flee there after the junk issued warrants for their arrests. that there is no trust between the civil servants and the ethnic armed groups they help us and their kind we feel safe being here since they started siding with us we told them ask us for anything that we can do to help we are ready to help. new partnership has brought continued attention to the broad spectrum o