HSER NAY MOO'S FAMILY CAME TO AMERICA FOR A BETTER LIFE

From Myanmar to U.S., trials follow girl's family
By Julia Lyon The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/02/2008 01:27:29 AM MDT

The family of slain 7-year-old Hser Nay Moo fled an authoritarian regime in Burma and spent 20 years as refugees in a camp in Thailand before arriving in Utah last summer.

More than 2 million Burmese, primarily ethnic minorities, have left since military leaders seized the impoverished country, now called Myanmar, in the 1980s, according to Human Rights Watch.

The Wah family are members of the Karen minority ethnic group. Karen villages were destroyed as part of the State Peace and Development Council's plan of "forcibly relocating" minorities, especially in areas with active insurgents or targeted for development, the international rights organization charges.

Utah has welcomed about 400 Burmese refugees, which include members of the Karen and Chin ethnic groups, since last year. Most have been in camps more than 10 years, according to Aden Batar with Catholic Community Services, one of Utah's resettlement agencies.

Camp conditions typically include limited schooling for children, no running water and primitive living conditions.

READ ABOUT THE LIVING CONDITIONS IN MYANMAR (BURMA)...
COULD YOU SURVIVE IN THESE PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS?
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_8779273

HSER NAY MOO: PLEASE, HELP THE GRIEVING FAMILY

A donation fund has been set up for the family of Hser Nay Moo at Zions Bank. Donations can be made to a fund in her parent's names, Cartoon and Pearlie Wah.
You can donate at any Zions Bank location

Zion’s Bank
701 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84102

ref. Hser Nay Moo - donation

Read my Fellow Blogger's connection to Hser Nay Moo's Family, and his loving recollections.
http://bobaagard.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-personal-connection-to-hser-nay-moo.html

HSER NAY MOO: WHY DO MEN KILL CHILDREN? WHY!

AP/ A makeshift memorial made up of teddy bears, candles, flowers and notes lies outside the apartment complex of Hser Nay Moo.

Man Who Confessed to Causing Death of Missing 7-Year-Old Utah Girl Knew Her Family
Thursday, April 03, 2008 / Fox News

SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah — The man who admitted to keeping a missing 7-year-old girl against her will in his apartment and later killing her knew the girl's family, police said.

Esar Met, 21, was booked on charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping and evidence tampering after confessing to the crime.

Police on Tuesday night found the body of Hser Nay Moo, who disappeared Monday from the apartment complex after an argument with her 10-year-old brother. Hser's body was found in the bathroom of Met's basement apartment, which is in the same complex where her family lives, MyFOXUtah reported.

Hser was killed within an hour of when she left her home, South Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Snyder said at a press conference Wednesday.

Hser went to Met's apartment, where she often played, according to police.

"We do not know how she got in, whether or not she was invited in or whether or not she asked to go in," Snyder said.

Met hid the body and left the apartment after a physical altercation with Hser that led to her death, Snyder said. Snyder would not release Hser's cause of death or if she was sexually assaulted.

READ AND CRY FOR THIS CHILD, AND PRAY FOR HER FAMILY...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,345708,00.html

UTAH: HSER NAY MOO, BODY FOUND

The South Salt Lake Police are looking for Hser Nay Moo (pronounced Sin-Na-Moo), a 7-year-old Asian girl. She is 3 feet 8 inches tall, 45 pounds, with long black hair, and is missing her two front teeth. She was last seen wearing a pink coat, blue jeans and black and pink sneakers. Hser Nay Moo was last seen Monday at 2 P.M. in the area of 2250 South 500 East.

Body of Missing 7-Year-Old Utah Girl Reportedly Found
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 / Associated Press

KSTU-TV in Utah is getting witness reports that the body of missing 7-year-old Hser Ner Moo was found Tuesday night. The television station is also hearing reports that three people may have been arrested in connection with the death.

A news conference on the case is expected Tuesday night.

Click here for more on this story from MyFOXUtah.com.

An army of volunteers joined police in the search for the girl who disappeared Monday after an argument with an older brother.

Police issued an Amber Alert for Hser Ner Moo on Tuesday.

SAD OUTCOME TO THIS AMBER ALERT... 5 ARRESTED!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344469,00.html

DITH PRAN DIES: SURVIVOR OF CAMBODIAN "KILLING FIELDS"

DITH PRAN

AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN

Dith Pran, Cambodian 'Killing Fields' survivor, dies of cancer at 65 BY ERIN EINHORN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Updated Sunday, March 30th 2008, 10:21 PM

The daring New York Times photojournalist whose story became the basis of "The Killing Fields" - and the inspiration behind his "one-person crusade" to tell the world about the Cambodian genocide - died Sunday.

Dith Pran, 65, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, was best known for his work with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg covering the murderous 1975- 1979 Khmer Rouge reign that killed as many as 2 million Cambodians.

Among the dead were 50 of Pran's own relatives - his father, his sister, three brothers and their families.

In a letter to Times staffers Sunday after Pran's death in a Jersey hospital, Executive Editor Bill Keller called Pran a hero.

"Pran reminds us of a special category of journalistic heroism - the local partner, the stringer, the interpreter . . . who knows the ropes, who makes your work possible, who often becomes your friend, who may save your life, who shares little of the glory, and who risks so much more than you do," Keller wrote.

Schanberg has credited Pran with saving his life and the lives of other journalists for insisting that he come along when the group was taken captive.

When Schanberg received the 1976 Pulitzer Prize, he accepted on behalf of Pran, who was in prison in Cambodia, where he endured four years of torture until fleeing to Thailand in 1979.

His reunion there with Schanberg was recreated in the 1984 Academy Award-winning movie "The Killing Fields."

"There was no way I could have done the work I did without him," Schanberg told Reuters. "We became more than friends. We became brothers."

Pran followed Schanberg back to New York and was hired by The Times, where colleagues Sunday celebrated his kindness and joy for life.

READ MORE OF DITH PRAN'S EXTRAORDINARY LIFE...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/30/2008-03-30_dith_pran_cambodian_killing_fields_survi.html