Your Life: Helping to Ease Burma's Despair ; As the Bloody Protests in Burma Continue, We Talk to a Tyneside Woman Who has Witnessed at First Hand the Carnage Wrought by the Ruling Military Dictatorship. She Tells Her Story to Mitya Underwood

Evening Chronicle › September 29, 2007

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ANNIE Stokle, 46, is a community nurse living and working on Tyneside. For the past decade she has spent eight weeks every year in refugeetype camps on the Burma-Thailand border, trying to highlight the problems faced by the people living under the devastating military regime. Along with her teacher husband Tony, 47, and sons Declan, 14, Patrick, 17, and daughter Sarah, 22, the family provide much-needed aid, support and education.

Here are some exclusive diary extracts from her latest trip which finished just weeks before the latest violent clashes.

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Your Life: Helping to Ease Burma's Despair ; As the Bloody Protests in Burma Continue, We Talk to a Tyneside Woman Who has Witnessed at First Hand the Carnage Wrought by the Ruling Military Dictatorship. She Tells Her Story to Mitya Underwood

Wednesday, July 11

Before I left camp I visited two children with advanced stages of rickets. I have supported the two children for the last five years and wanted to deliver new splints.

San San Oo is 15 and her brother, Than Win, is 12, their condition is extreme although not unique. Numerous broken ...

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