After 4 years of being at the army camp, Anna decided to run away. She was tired of being yelled at every day, living in fear and being constantly exhausted and hungry. One day, Anna and a friend pretended to get sick and told the leaders they could not work. They hid in a car and crossed into a small city on the Burma China border.
Read MoreAnna is one of five daughters who grew up in an area that, until recently, was the largest producer of heroine in the world. This meant one in every two children was forced into drug-funded rebel armies. Anna became one of those children, at only 11 years old...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, in the southern Philippines, high in the mountains of Northern Mindanao, lived a Manobo tribal chief (datu) who dreamed of a better future for his people. Greedy businessmen, along with corrupt political leaders had become wealthy by denuding the beautiful virgin forest that sustained life for his people, the Manobos and other neighboring tribes, and they had also destroyed parts of the land by harmful methods of mining. Just as the tribal people of North America and the Soviet Union had been mistreated and taken advantage of in the past, history was being repeated in the Philippines.
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“I wasn’t ever registered as a soldier; my older brother was. The soldiers came to our house and read his name off the village register. My brother wasn’t in the barracks very long before he fled, and to this day, we don’t know where he is. So the soldiers came back to our house and took me away instead. Someone from our house was required to serve and I was next in line.
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