War and Peace Reports

Solidarity and Resistance

New Year’s eve in Scala Sycamnias, a small fisherman’s village in the north of Lesvos Island. In the coffee shop on the port, an unusual crowd is gathered around the fireplace. People wearing divers suits, ski jackets, gloves and wool hats, foreigners with dreadlocks, clean shaved sportsmen and middle-aged fishermen all of them having coffee, tea and local ouzo. Scala...

Gaza 2009..living in the darkness

I entered Gaza the 12th of January 2009 late in the evening with a group of doctors. It was my first time entering an active war zone and I was feeling kind of nervous. The feeling of anxiety worsened as a sound of bomb dropping near the bus made us all in the “Gaza city” bus that is transferring people from Egyptian to Palestinian border fall under our seats. The distance...

Free Burma Rangers

Uprooted minorities, 50 years on the run Mission inside Karen State, Burma Fifty years of civil war against ethnic groups have left Burma one of the poorest countries in the world. The military regime attacks the ethnic minorities, killing thousands, and leaving separated families and millions displaced all around Burma. The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic...