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The best fish sandwich around
Golf survives in Colon's informal economy
American Society Election Night
Bocas Town park getting a makeover
Barbara O'Neal Braun
Small plane transportation
Sights in Bocas
How Panama deals with the religious freedom issue
Restaurant atmospherics
Rodman Oakes
US Army South pays a return visit to Macaracas
Running with the rebels in Burma
Democrats Abroad cookout
Young baseball player given a chance to play with both hands

Resting between battles at a Karen guerrilla camp

Another way to spend winter break

OK, let's not be flippant here. Waging guerrilla war as part of the ragtag army of an ancient nation that's resisting the cruel tyranny of the obnoxious military dictatorship in Myanmar (Burma) is not a pleasant vacation, unless one has some strange tastes.

This time the travel feature in The Panama News takes us to eastern Burma, where Tom Bleming is running with the warriors of the Karen reistance. The Karen are one of several of Burma's ethnic minorities that have armies in the field to take on the dictatorship.

Photos by Tom Bleming and the Karen National Liberation Army

Ready fight the forces of the Myanmar dictatorship

The government has heavy artillery, while the rebels carry their weapons around

Do the rebels have Panamanians in their ranks?

A Karen National Liberation Army mess hall

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