ABSTRACT
‘Why do you want to write about us?’, asked one of the five remaining women soldiers in 2007. 1 ‘We have removed that episode [their time in the first Burma Women’s Army] from our memory’. Yet, when I organized a party for six fighters who fought alongside each other during the resistance movement – that is, five women soldiers and one male, who was also one of the founding members of the Burma Army – their time in the army was the central theme of the conversation throughout.
