Refugees come to Denver looking for better lives, but Ma Kaing lost hers in the East Colfax neighborhood.
Michelle Christiansen Photographyand public officials came together in the basement of Hidden Brook Apartments at 1313 Xenia Street, twelve days after resident Ma Kaing was shot and killed outside by a stray bullet coming from nearby New Freedom Park.
Ma Kaing was a beloved member of the community who’d opened her own Burmese restaurant, Taw Win, at 1120 Yosemite Street in 2020. The 42-year-old mother and entrepreneur was a member of the East Colfax Neighborhood Association and helped start the East Colfax Food Bank at nearby Counterpath. Back in Burma, if someone was involved in activity against the regime, they knew they would not be safe. For those not involved, life was likely safer — but that was never a guarantee.
Rashid Ullah is also from Burma. He and his family escaped to Bangladesh as refugees in 1992, when Burma was experiencing serious human-rights violations. In the refugee camps in Bangladesh, he recalls, most people only got an education up to grade five or seven, so he fled — but he returned when he learned that his family had been selected to come to the U.S. Ullah was twenty when his family arrived here in 2009.
When her husband started having health problems, the UNHCR offered Canada, the United States or New Zealand as a place the family could go. They chose the U.S., and in 2012 their case manager set them up at an apartment in the East Colfax community. “It’s always somebody dying or somebody getting beat up...it’s always about somebody getting injured, and it’s always us refugees,” Amin says. “It looks like nobody’s ever doing anything for us.”Over the past several weeks, the East Colfax community has been coming together to share their experiences as public officials listen to their demands for a safer space and accountability.
Campbell stresses that when working with a community that is populated with a certain demographic, representation is also important. Before he resigned, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen was working on a plan to allow non-citizens to become police officers.
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