5/20/2023 0 Comments Little Daughter by Zoya Phan![]() In her autobiography, she recalls hunting for edible mushrooms with her much-loved adopted brother, Say Say. Zoya lived in a bamboo hut on stilts by the Moei River, on the Burmese-Thai border. ![]() Her mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. Zoya was born in the remote jungle territory of the ethnic Karen, who have been resisting Burmese government oppression for more than 60 years. ![]() He prayed that when I grew up I would be strong, and that I would help my country and my people." He prayed to the tree spirit on the mountaintop, because it is high and has vision and can see into the future. “He buried my umbilical cord under an ancient giant of a tree, and then he prayed for his Little Daughter. ![]() "My father marked the day of my birth with a traditional animist ceremony,” wrote Zoya, who is now 28 and lives in London, working for the human rights organization Burma Campaign UK. An autobiography of Zoya Phan, a daughter of Mahn Sha, the respected Karen leader who was assassinated by unknown gunmen in a Thai border town last year, is to be launched next week in London. ![]()
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