Myanmar: In Myanmar, Paul Sein Twa Helps Establish a Peace Park

Nov 30, 2020 | Madeleine Gregory, Sierra Club
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The Salween River Basin—a strip of land on the border of Myanmar and Thailand—has been a site of conflict since before Paul Sein Twa was born. At the end of World War II, the Indigenous Karen people who inhabit the basin began fighting the Myanmar government to create an independent state.  One of the most biodiverse places in Asia, the basin was routinely damaged in this decades-long conflict. While he was growing up, Sein Twa and his family moved back and forth along the Myanmar-Thai border, regularly crossing the Salween River to escape from the Burmese military.