Karen nuclear time movie#

I would also like to thank the many helpful Karen villagers and KNLA soldiers at Mu Aye Pu, who will not be referred to by name due to the sensitivity of their standing. I am also indebted to Dr Lian Sakhong of the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) for sending me ENC documents and policy statements. Nerdah Mya, the late General Bo Mya, the remaining Mya brothers and other Karen National Union (KNU) commanders who allowed me to interact with and interview them at Mu Aye Pu base, home of the KNLA 202 Battalion, and when visiting 201 Battalion on 31 January 2004. In the Karen State of Kawthoolei I am indebted to Col. I also express my deepest gratitude to Dr Rodolfo Stavenhagen, whose ideas have inspired my development thinking tremendously. In the United States, I begin by first thanking historian Dr Dilip Basu, ethnic and indigenous studies scholar Dr John Brown Childs and development and environmentalist scholar Dr Ben Crow for their guidance and inspiration. I want to express my deepest gratitude to all the kind people abroad and at home who have supported this project. I argue that Karen liberation ethnodevelopment is also a development process, but one that develops and shields the Karen from ethnic cleansing. Thus, I revise ethnodevelopment from its top-to-bottom trajectory where ethnic minority development is dependent upon the centralized state, to a bottom-to-top trajectory I designate as liberation ethnodevelopment. However, Stavenhagen's ethnodevelopment does not question the premise of an authoritarian state or the systemic crisis experienced by ethnic minorities under authoritarian rule. Ethnodevelopment argues that, if asymmetrical development occurs within a multi-ethnic state, state-oriented ethnic minority development strategies are needed to neutralize the asymmetry. I frame Karen self-determination as a development issue by employing Rodolfo Stavenhagen's ethnodevelopment model.

Karen nuclear time movie#

The company would close five years later and an award-winning movie about Karen Silkwood’s battle with Kerr-McGee and subsequent murder would be made in 1983 starring Meryl Streep and Cher.My paper examines the Karen ethnic nationality and their fifty-eight-year self-determination struggle against ethnic cleansing resulting from the ethnocratic and military governments of Burma. Karen Silkwood’s father would later win a $1.3 million lawsuit against Kerr-McGee. After she was killed an autopsy showed she had mysteriously ingested plutonium. But they also found skid marks and an unexplained dent in her rear bumper, strongly suggesting she was driven off the road by another driver. Investigators found she had taken a large dose of Quaaludes before driving. There was no explanation for the crash and she was dead almost instantly. She had with her paperwork showing the company’s safety negligence, paperwork that was missing from the car after the accident. On the night of her death, she was driving to meet with a union representative and a New York Times reporter when she hit a concrete culvert. Doctors performed further tests and the results showed high levels of radioactive contamination in her body and the apartment she shared with a co-worker, but it was inconclusive how the radioactivity got in her body at such high levels. It indicated her right was arm was covered in plutonium and that it had come from the inside of her work gloves, or from her arm and hand, and not from plutonium exposure. Two months before her death, she went to the federal Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to report dangerous levels of radioactivity at the plant when monitors showed she had radiation contamination.Īfter testifying before the AEC, Silkwood was working November 5, polishing plutonium pellets for nuclear power plant fuel rods when a radiation detector went off. 13, 1974, one of the most famous whistleblowers of all time was killed in what is now believed a company-supported murder when she died in a car accident after exposing wrongdoing at a plutonium plant where she worked.Ģ8-year old Karen Silkwood was a Kerr-McGee plutonium plant technician in Oklahoma City and a member of her union’s health and safety committee (Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, OCAW). Citizenship and Legislative (CAP) Committee.Ethics Reforms Overview/UAW Ethics Officer.