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THE STUDENT ARMY OF BURMA -
PART 3

Photos and Text by Richelle Forsey



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This guy was a goofball—he was really loud and always pulling pranks. He couldn’t speak much English and called me Canada because I’m from Toronto.


A scarf is your best friend in the heat. You use it as a sweat rag or head wrap.


I caught dengue fever and had to leave for a few weeks before they would let me back into the camps. I went to Mae Sot and volunteered and bummed around the refugee camps. The youngest children in the camps were shy, but they quickly learn how to smile and be coy with foreigners, because we usually have candy and pencils.


Tank Boy (foreground) and Uncle Small (background) would never let me actually see any actual violent confrontations, but they wanted to share the experience with me in some way, so we went out to the jungle for some action on the front lines.


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Anonymous, on Aug 12, 2008 wrote:
to all the people hating on this article. did you even know about this shit before you read it? well. probably not. so fuckin well done vice for printing some more stuff that we dont get exposed to everyday. as for the tone of the article. fuck it. its the story that matters.

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