For more than six years, I have been working in tribal areas all over Southeast Asia as a journalist. Whenever I go into these villages I always wish that I had more medical training and could bring the people direct aid as well as being their voice, telling the world about their plight. Since October of 2007, I have been working inside of Shanland, Burma, where the Shan ethnic minority people are being killed by their government. After a near brush with disaster on the border, ... (more)