Revolutionary conservation is at the heart of the Indigenous Karen struggle in southeast Myanmar, as activist Paul Sein Twa explains to Lital Khaikin.
‘We’ve been forgotten,’ says Paul Sein Twa, internationally recognized Karen environmental activist, and executive director of Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN).
He has lived through several periods of political turmoil in Myanmar, passing from one military regime to another and navigating predatory international development and centralization reforms under the democratic mandate of former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
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