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Burmese villagers receive aid from the Free Burma Rangers
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A Free Burma Ranger temporary medical clinic is seen as local villagers wait to be seen by FBR team members. With no other options for the local population when it comes to medical care, the FBR provides an essential need for free.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Ranger members distribute medical supplies to different FBR teams in preparation for upcoming missions. FBR teams split up and fan out to different regions of Burma.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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A Free Burma Ranger pulls a tooth from a local villager at a temporary medical clinic set up by the group. The FBR brings medical and humanitarian aid to the frontlines of Burma's neediest in the 60-year conflict between ethnic rebels and the central government's military junta.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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A young Karen child stares out the door of his family's boat house in Karen State, Burma.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Rangers and porters carry needed medical supplies through the mountainous jungle of Karen State.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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A pig scavenges through the remains of a home burnt down by the junta in Tha Da Der village in Karen State, Burma. When the village was burnt to the ground the Free Burma Rangers were the first responders, providing humanitarian aid to the displaced villagers.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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The Free Burma Rangers is a clandestine humanitarian organization that provides medical assistance, shelter, food, and other aid to people in the war-torn regions of Burma. Outside of humanitarian aid the FBR also operates an information network to document atrocities as well as a warning system for villagers.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Rangers carry medical supplies through rice paddies in Karen State to the site of a medical clinic held for local villagers.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Rangers bring medical supplies to a temporary base camp in order to distribute them at a medical clinic they will hold for the people of five nearby villages.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Rangers members distribute medical supplies to FBR teams. FBR teams split up and fan out to different regions of Burma, each with their own area of responsibility.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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A Burma Army base is seen through the scope of a Karen National Liberation Army 5th Brigade soldier along the frontline of the war between the Burmese junta and the Karen.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Rangers prepare to debark with a boat full of supplies to be brought to base camp. The Rangers must clandestinely sneak medical supplies and other aid into Burma past the ever-watching junta.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Ranger security hold a meeting in preparation for the day's clinic. The FBR, assisted by the Karen National Liberation Army 5th brigade, stationed men around the valley to keep an eye out for the junta.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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A Free Burma Ranger team medic performs minor surgery on a local villager at a temporary clinic set up for the people of local villages in Karen State.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Free Burma Ranger and Karen National Liberation Army 5th Brigade soldiers on the frontlines in the fight against the Burmese junta.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Karen villagers wait for a Free Burma Ranger medical clinic to open.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Villagers arrive at the Free Burma Ranger medical clinic in Karen State.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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Village children wait for the Free Burma Rangers clinic to open in the early morning hours.
- [KC Ortiz/GlobalPost]
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