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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Myanmar

    Important, authoritative and timely report.
    I. THAI GOVERNMENT CLASSIFICATION FOR PEOPLE FROM BURMA:

    Temporarily Displaced; Students and Political Dissidents ; Migrants .

    II. BRIEF PROFILE OF THE MIGRANTS FROM BURMA .

    III REASONS FOR LEAVING BURMA :

    Forced Relocations and Land Confiscation ;
    Forced Labor and Portering;

    War and Political Oppression;

    Taxation and Loss of Livelihood;

    Economic Conditions .

    IV. FEAR OF RETURN.

    V. RECEPTION CENTERS.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2002
    Myanmar

    In January 2002 it appeared that the SPDC considered most of Dooplaya district of southern Karen State to be pacified and under their control. But then Light Infantry Division 88 was sent in and commenced Operation Than L'Yet, forcibly relocating as many as 60 villages by July. Villagers were rounded up and detained without food for days, or force-marched to Army-controlled relocation sites after their houses were burned. Village heads, women and children were tortured.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2002
    Myanmar

    Perhaps one million people living in the States and Divisions of Burma adjacent to the Thailand border have been displaced since 1996. At least 150,000 have fled as refugees or joined the huge “illegal” migrant population in Thailand.[2] Countless others have moved away to other villages and towns in Burma.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2002
    Myanmar

    Beginning 1999 up to March this year (2002), hundreds of thousands of Wa people, who had
    impressed British travelers as 'exceedingly well-behaved, industrious, and estimable race', were
    forcibly moved to border areas adjacent Thailand. The report is about them, why and how they were
    uprooted, what happened to the native people where the Wa were forced to resettle and what the
    reader can do to help both categories of victims..."
    Important, timely and well-produced
    document, complete with maps and photos.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2002
    Myanmar

    Refugees International Advocate Veronika Martin and human rights lawyer Betsy Apple recently completed an assessment mission to the Thai-Burmese border.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2002
    Myanmar

    The situation of Internally Displaced People (IDP?s), in Burma remained critical throughout 2001. The US State Department
    estimates that there could be up to1 million members of ethnic minority groups who the SPDC has forcibly relocated from their
    villages and districts, and who are currently living along the Thai border. Reports from NGOs also estimate that an additional 1
    million IDP?s are living a precarious existance in other locations throughout the country...

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