Finding Refuge in Omaha: The Karen Community’s Perseverance through War, Displacement, and Pandemic

Feb 15, 2021 10:10AM ● By Doug Meigs and Manger Baw

To escape the world's longest-running civil war, some 150,000—mostly Karen—refugees fled from Burma into Thailand. More than 76,000 resettled in the U.S., with 8,000 now living in Nebraska.