Meet young Master Kawn Wan, whose parents were murdered by the SPDC Burmese government army. Now, he lives on the Shan State Army base, teaching Lai Tai Kung Fu to the war orphans in the hopes of preserving the Shan culture.
Read MoreIn the war zone of Burma, Antonio Graceffo meets Mater Kawn Zanie, a legendary, undisputed master of Lai Tai, Shan Kung Fu; a soldier with decades of combat experience who often goes out on patrols armed only with Shan double swords, and no gun.
Read MoreThe war effects of the war in Burma don’t stop at the border. Host Antonio Gracefo takes us to a Buddhist monastery in Thailand where a Shan soldier, Tun Yee, has returned to the monk-hood, in order to travel to a border town where he heard a runor that his mother was still alive. “I don’t remember her face,” Tun Yee told Antonio in a previous video, entitled “Orphan to Soldier.” Since that horrible day, ten or eleven years ago, when the SPDC burned his village and murdered many of his neighbors, Tun Yee hasn’t had any word of his mother.
Read MoreHost Antonio Gracefo takes us to the front lines of the world’s longest running war. He explains the history of the conflict and how the genocide is being fueled by the drugs trade. He joins a patrol of Shan soldiers, sent out to prevent the SPDC from killing Shan families who are returning to their village after celebrating Shan children’s day.
Read MoreHost Antonio Graceffo rejoins the team of medical volunteers who are donating their time and risking their lives to give treatment to the war orphans living in Loi Tailang.
Read MoreAntonio Graceffo accompanies a volunteer medical mission on a visit to SSA headquarters in Loi Tailang, where they render much needed medical aid to the war orphans and abandoned children.
Read MoreUsing martial arts, Antonio Graceffo helps to educate the world about the plight of the Shan people of Burma.
Read MoreOn the frontlines of the war in Burma, Antonio Graceffo shows us a Burmese government Opium production facility and a village of Shan people, enslaved, living under threat of death, forced to grow poppies.
Read MoreThe hospital at Loi Tailang is the only medical facility open to all ethnicities from Shan State.
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In this new episode, Antonio Graceffo interviews an aged Shan man who was captured by the Burmese SPDC forces, held and tortured for four years, and then released to a life of slave labor.
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