Fighting alongside the SPDC are soldiers ostensibly belonging to a rival Karen militia, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) -a loose coalition of KNU defectors, drug-runners and freelance thugs.
At the same time, though, we do not want our story to overshadow the critical plight of these desperate defectors.
Their focus is no longer on liberating Somalia, the defectors said, but on something bigger.
Tales of false defectors were never very welcome to a man of his solidity.
The wrangling over the defectors is the latest friction between the Koreas.
The footage shows a woman identified as the mother of one of the defectors calling the South Korean side "inhumane" and "confrontational" and accusing it of trying to separate her from her daughter.
We avoided filming the faces of defectors so as not to reveal their identities. The exception was one woman who allowed us to film her profile.
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