Saw Lambert (1941- 2015) was born in a small village in Karen State close to the Thailand border. As a teenager he boarded in the nearest high-school, forty miles away, and later graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Mawlamyine University in Mon State. Having been denied permission by the Socialist Government to study bookbinding […]
‘Only a small number of Karen people living in the Karen State and along the Thai-Myanmar border play the traditional instruments and they have nearly disappeared in other areas inhabited by the Karen people.’
One of the many touted reforms of the Thein Sein administration was the recognition of the right to teach ethnic language and literature. Commitments were made to incorporate literature lessons into the syllabus with a monthly stipend for the teachers, commitments that were endorsed by the successor NLD government …