 "The plight of the Karen people, who were forced into slave labour in the rainforest to build pipelines for oil companies (some of them British), was a tale of human suffering that needed to be told by any branch of the media that was interested.I handed over all the names and numbers I had, as well as details of the secret route through Thailand to get into Burma.Afterwards – and not for the first time – it seemed to me that we at the "Guardian" should be using our resources ourselves.