Displaced and Bombed: Stories from an IDP Camp School Underscore the Depth of Burma’s Suffering

The school in the IDP camp. Photo by Antonio Graceffo.

Under a plastic tarp in a classroom at a school in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Shan State, Burma (Myanmar), students and teachers told how they were displaced by the Burma army, lost family members, and had their lives turned upside down. Their ambitions and hopes have been frozen, and many have been displaced multiple times. A common thread among a significant percentage of the camp’s hundreds of residents is that their previous IDP camp was bombed repeatedly...