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SSSNY Proudly Presents the Launch of the Seventh Training Students’
New Book, Letters from Shan State

 
 

“I am sitting beside the road and waiting for mom to bring me home …
I have been waiting here for a long time
Other moms are coming to pick up their children
And they go back home with happiness but for me it is so sad
And I feel lonely at this time when I see them all smiling
For me it is so helpless.
The time passed so fast and no one is coming to get me
What had happened to them when the sound of the gun was so loud
Mom where are you now? Why you don’t come take me home?
Right now I am so scared and I cannot feel the warmth of my mom….”
Excerpt from “The Sound of the Gun Made Me Lose My Family”

“One year, it was very wonderful; the sky was very bright and we saw the lights from the sky throughout the area. The air was full of Christmas songs and people’s laughing. For this reason, everyone’s mind was blissful at that time.
We could not say in words how blissful we were…”
Excerpt from “Flowing Christmas Day”

 
Somewhere in between terror and bliss lies the truth about Burma. “Letters from Shan State” offers a glimpse into daily life in the largest state in Burma. Written by 36 youth from renowned activist Nang Charm Tong’s School for Shan State Nationalities Youth, these stories describe the horrors from which the students have escaped, and the beauty they so strongly desire to return to.
 
 
All proceeds from the sale of this book go
towards the academic programs at
the School for Shan State Nationalities Youth
 
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Candles in the Dark: The Diaries of SSSNY Students
Letters
from Shan State
Voices from Darkness
T-shirt:
Education is a Right
New Music
on Old Guitars
 
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