Revisiting friends

Ba Saw took a break from ABSDF after his leg injury and opened this bookshop in Mae Sot, Thailand.

A Karen refugee camp near Sangkhlaburi, Thailand
With friends in Sangkhlaburi

My friends

Ba Saw Tun's school

My friend's Ba Saw Tun's school in Mae Sot, Thailand. He opened a school (free of charge) for immigrants' children after he stepped on a landmine. Most of their parents are illegal workers in Thailand and could not go to school there.

My freinds

My friends

My friends

Sayagyi Khaing Oo Maung. He was a teacher before he left Burma in 1988. He is still teaching somewhere on Thai-Burma border.

A new camp. Clear the trees to grow a vegetable garden.

My friend

My friends

My friends

Life in the US (Early years)

Shwe Sin and me preparing a banner for a demonstration ( 1993?).

Barbecue party at Richmond Apt

We are having a barbecue party at the back of my apartment (1993?) in Richmond.

My friend Jesse

My friend Jesse's family and me ( I was holding Esther.) Jesse, me and Abdul were close friends during undergraduate years. He is Chinese. I am Burmese and Abdul is Parkistani. Jesse is a nephrologist now and practices in CA.

Ko Nyo

This was taken at Richmond airport when they first arrived to the US. They stayed with me for a while and then moved on. Ko Nyo now opens a restaurant in Columbia, SC. (Far left is Sai Mon. They later moved to Indiana.)

Ko Thiri Nyunt-Moon Aung

Ko Thiri and Moon Aung, both are famous singers of our time. Both are proud members of ABSDF 102. This picture was taken at in Manerplaw Headquarter (1991). Ko Moon Aung resettles in Norway and Ko Thiri resettles in the US. He is currently working as a Computer Software Engineer, after graduated from California State University with BSEE degree (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering).

Ko Aung Thu Nyein, Ko Thet and posse

Ko Thet (back row left:holding a M16)Front: (left to right) Ko Aung Thu Nyein, Ko Soe Aung
Middle: Ko Thet (wearing glasses), ? (forgot his name)
Back: Ko Win Naing Oo, Tay Zar, Min Lwin

"This is our group photo at the very beginning we arrived in Three Pagoda Pass in late 1988."
Ko Thet visiting Three Pagoda Pass.

This is Ko Thet now. By the way, I heard, he is still single.

ABSDF's led delegation to Denmark around 1999

This is ABSDF's led delegation to Denmark around 1999 for a study tour for Scandinavian government model.

Thapsake camp (South)

(right to left: Win Min, Ko Aung Thu Nyein, Ko Moe Thee and unknown visitors at Thapsake camp in 1994?) We moved to this area after the fall of Nat Ein Daung in 1992.

ABSDF fifth conference

Ko Aung Thu giving a speech at ABSDF 5th conference at a camp near MaeSariang.

Zaw Gyi and me

Zaw Gyi and me in front of his house in Chaing Mai (Circa 1996). Zaw Gyi, Ba Saw Tun (lives in Germany now), EC (lives in Fortwayne, IN), Ka Yin Ma Aung Naing (died: He was the youngest of us.) and me lived in Daw Lay's hosue in Three Pagoda Pass village for a several months. At that time, ABSDF battallions were not formally formed yet. We all were from Rangoon, met there and decided to share the house. Some of their friends and my friend who came with me decided to went back after a couple bouts of malaria. It was a cold place with a temperature around 50s without heater, warm cloths or enough blankets.