Voices Under Fire

Sources

Primary Materials

Letters, testimonies, interviews, and media artifacts used in the archive.

  1. “Day of Prayer Testimonial.” Personal communication from Rachel Moss, 4 Mar. 2026.
  2. “Free Burma Rangers on the Road.” Photograph. Personal communication from Jon Moss, 4 Mar. 2026.
  3. “Joy and Pain Interview.” YouTube, uploaded by Free Burma Rangers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIfE6sn0-c. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  4. “Kabar Ma Kyay Bu (We Will Never Forget).” YouTube, uploaded by Nana Kwame Dankwa Fianko, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqPofsJwrE. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  5. “Karenni Church Choir Singing ‘Hallelujah.’” YouTube, uploaded by Free Burma Rangers, https://www.youtube.com/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  6. “Kids Handwritten Letter 1.” Photograph. Personal communication from Rachel Moss, 4 Mar. 2026.
  7. “Kids Handwritten Letter 2.” Photograph. Personal communication from Rachel Moss, 4 Mar. 2026.
  8. “Landmine Survivors.” Photograph. Personal communication from Jon Moss, 4 Mar. 2026.
  9. “Letter from a Victim.” In “Update: Karen Medic Writes Heartfelt Letter on Recovery Journey.” Free Burma Rangers, https://www.freeburmarangers.org/post/update-karen-medic-writes-heartfelt-letter-on-recovery-journey. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  10. “Myanmar: Landmine Awareness Saves Lives amid Conflict and Natural Disasters.” International Committee of the Red Cross, https://www.icrc.org/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  11. “Restoring Safe Ground in Burma.” Free Burma Rangers, 19 Aug. 2025, https://www.freeburmarangers.org/post/restoring-safe-ground-in-burma. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  12. “Trauma Response Training.” In “Restoring Safe Ground in Burma.” Free Burma Rangers, 19 Aug. 2025, https://www.freeburmarangers.org/post/restoring-safe-ground-in-burma. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  13. “Demining Training.” In “Restoring Safe Ground in Burma.” Free Burma Rangers, 19 Aug. 2025, https://www.freeburmarangers.org/post/restoring-safe-ground-in-burma. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  14. “Mines Glovebox Photo.” In “Restoring Safe Ground in Burma.” Free Burma Rangers, 19 Aug. 2025, https://www.freeburmarangers.org/post/restoring-safe-ground-in-burma. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
  15. “Young Man Injured Removing a Landmine.” Photograph. Personal communication from Jon Moss, 4 Mar. 2026.



Secondary Scholarship

Peer-reviewed sources used in the argument.

  1. Albrechtsen, M., et al. “Blind Spots: Feminist Memory, Gendered Testimony, and Cultural Trauma in Holocaust Memoirs.” Humanities, vol. 14, no. 8, 2025, article 168, https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/14/8/168.
  2. Haar, Rohini J., et al. “Documentation of Human Rights Abuses among Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar.” Conflict and Health, vol. 13, 2019, article 42, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6745767/.
  3. Koenig, Alexa, et al. Digital Lockers: Archiving Social Media Evidence of Atrocity Crimes. Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2021, https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Digital-Lockers.pdf.
  4. MacLean, Ken. “Human Rights ‘Fact’ Production and Why It Matters: Myanmar as a Case in Point.” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 20, no. 18, no. 6, 2022, https://apjjf.org/2022/18/maclean.
  5. Matelski, Marion, et al. “Documenting Human Rights Violations in Myanmar: The Potential for Truth-Telling and Accountability.” Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, 2022, https://nscr.nl/en/documenting-human-rights-violations-in-myanmar-the-potential-for-truth-telling-and-accountability/.
  6. Putra, Bama Andika. “Digital Activism in Southeast Asia: The #MilkTeaAlliance and Prospects for Social Resistance.” Frontiers in Sociology, vol. 9, 2024, article 1478630, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11625999/.



Tools

The tools used to run analyses, edit code, proofread writing, and support research are listed below.

  1. Anthropic. Claude. https://claude.ai. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
  2. Baccouri, Nidhal. deep-translator. GitHub, https://github.com/nidhaloff/deep-translator. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
  3. ElevenLabs. Speech to Text. https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
  4. Google. Gemini API Documentation. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
  5. Google. Google Colab. https://colab.research.google.com/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
  6. Google. Google Generative AI (Gemini) API. https://ai.google.dev/. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
  7. Hutto, C. J., and Eric Gilbert. VADER Sentiment Analysis. GitHub, https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
  8. OpenAI. Codex. https://openai.com/. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
  9. OpenAI. Whisper. GitHub, https://github.com/openai/whisper. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
  10. Perplexity AI. Perplexity. https://www.perplexity.ai/. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
  11. Reimers, Nils, and Iryna Gurevych. Sentence-BERT: Sentence Transformers. GitHub, https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.



Colab Notebooks

Adapted from lecture materials, DH 150: Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Humanities, Dr. Nicholas Sabo, UCLA.

  1. Sentiment Analysis: FBR_Letter_Emotion_Analysis.ipynb. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1CDlds8qtqLh1tp_W0JUrVJqIRwlbrL9T
  2. Burma Sentiment Analysis. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wd2OfaqYuTsLZ9LcsSSJ2pkzgsaAB-o6
  3. OCR: Burma Computer Vision.ipynb. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/124LQ67vPK-JLhHfk2lKIuDOJBzepd49X
  4. Semantic Analysis: Semantic_Distortion_Translation.ipynb. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1i40yc5SAw4amhXu9Cd38xsTPCe9c_N1E
  5. Transcription: Transcription_Analysis_and_Music_Transcription (2).ipynb. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/17V5PHjUcUOL6Po93NsrXZYvh_Ktt2sAm
  6. Translation: Semantic_Distortion_Translation.ipynb. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1i40yc5SAw4amhXu9Cd38xsTPCe9c_N1E



Supplementary Materials

For grading and review purposes, the full project documents are linked below.