15 Year old Yea shwee (Golden Brave) Conscripted by SPDC forces in Rangoon when he was 13, from a southern delta farming family he was inducted into the 207 Light Infantry and sent to Mon state. There he was given training as a porter then sent to a frontline detachment fighting in the Doanna mountians. Four months ago whilst close to the Thai border, he made an escape along with four other porters heading for the Moie river in the direction of the rising sun. During the three day journey, two of his comrades stepped on mines fatally wounding one and critically wounding the other who was unable to continue. Seperated from the other two, he finally made it to the border and a logging plant that assisted him in making contact with the KNU. He has spent the past three months undergoinmg retraining at a KNU military camp inside Karen State. January 1999.