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Interviewee
Anonymous December 7, 2001 

Call Number
02-001

Physical Description

41 pages; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 118 minutes, index

Interviewer
Wooley, Deanna

Access Status

Restricted (tapes closed)

Scope and Content Note

This is the life story of a Burmese immigrant, born in the mid-1970s, living in Indiana. The interviewee fled from Burma after the 1988 student uprisings. The interviewee talks about childhood, education, experiences during the uprisings and flight from Burma; fighting in the border areas; and life in a refugee camp. The interviewee discusses coming to Indiana on a scholarship, his impressions of the United States, and life as an immigrant in the United States. The interviewee also discusses hopes for the future including education, and returning to a democratic Burma.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • All Burma Student Democratic Front
  • BBC
  • Burmese Community Resource Center
  • Burmese Socialist People's Party
  • Democratic Voice of Burma
  • Distance Education Program
  • Indiana University
  • Open Society Institute
  • SEATO
  • TOTAL
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Unocal
  • Upper Burma Student Organization Society
• • Occupation Names
  • farmer
  • psychologist
  • soldier
• • Personal Names
  • Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Ne Win
• • Place Names
  • Australia
  • China
  • India
  • Indiana
  • Mandalay, Burma
  • Myanmar
  • Sino-Burma border
  • Thai-Burma border
  • Thailand
  • United States
• • Subjects
  • 1988 Burmese student uprising
  • astrology
  • Buddhism
  • Burmese education
  • Burmese military coup
  • Burmese military government
  • censorship
  • Christianity
  • ethnic groups
  • guitars
  • Hinduism
  • homosexuality
  • human rights
  • immigrants
  • jokes
  • palm reading
  • refugee camp
  • resistance groups
  • schools
  • theater