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Free Burma Rangers bring medical assistance to Peshmerga
[Rudaw] SHINGAL, Kurdistan Region -- Iraq's Nineveh Plains are a long way from the jungles of Mynamar, but for Joseph, a Myanmarese medic with the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), treating a mortar wound is the same. It's just that with no trees here, mortars here do damage over greater distances."In the jungle, even if a mortar lands near, it's no problem," says Joseph, who like many ethnic Karen, has no surname. But on Shingal, "it's pretty different." Joseph belongs to a clandestine non-governmental group that has been described as "Doctors Without Borders with guns," that operates in the ethnic states of Myanmar. Now the group are in Iraq and they've been helping the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-28 |
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