Karen refugees in Syracuse fight for justice, recognition
Emily Steinberger | Photo Editor
The Karen are a minority ethnic group in Myanmar, also known as Burma, that have been fighting for independence for the last 72 years.
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At 6 years old, Shawnai Ku fled one of the world’s longest-running civil wars.
She and her father, a Karen soldier in Myanmar, escaped on foot across the country’s border with Thailand. She still remembers crossing a river in a small boat, fearing for her life, knowing that both sides of the conflict would want to kill them one side for her father’s desertion and the other for their ethnicity.