Escape from the Walls
When the barricades
erected to defend the freedom of an
entire people, move back, closing to grip on themselves, they lose their effectiveness and
turn into bars of jail. Think about the Burmese people as a
free people is almost
a utopia. Walls. Concrete walls, walls of words, walls of thoughts. Like impassable border, the elements that
seem to be congenital
in the history of Burma are just the walls. In a country such as the
armored Myanmar, where
people are free to
do and think only what is imposed by the
military junta, the only way to freedom is
to flee. They are trying to rebuild a new form of freedom
in other lands, in other countries.
Often, however, the situation does not improve
too much. In Malaysia, the Burmese
refugees of Chin state, living in hiding in the abandoned buildings
of Kuala Lumpur and a camp in the jungle. This community, mostly
Catholic, organized in the C.R.C. association, arranging the subsistence and
organization of its population with schools and services at UNHRC. This work aims to focus the
gaze on the walls
of isolations which
confine the ideas,
opinions and daily life of this people.