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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    The feature section on Burma includes 29 articles exploring the extent of the displacement crisis, factors affecting displaced people and the search for solutions. The issue also includes 19 articles on other aspects of forced migration.....
    Forced displacement of Burmese people,
    Inge Brees...
    Burma: in urgent need of change,
    Douglas Alexander...
    The international community's Responsibility to Protect,
    Kavita Shukla... .
    Landmines: reason for flight, obstacle to return,
    Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan....

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    In the face of continuing grave violations of human rights
    by the Burmese government against its own civilians, it is
    imperative that the international community start to
    respond to Burma in terms of the Responsibility to Protect
    (R2P) principle...

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Burma/Myanmar has suffered
    from two decades of mine
    warfare by both the State Peace
    and Development Council and
    ethnic-based insurgents. There
    are no humanitarian demining
    programmes within the country.
    It is no surprise that those states
    in Burma/Myanmar with the most
    mine pollution are the highest
    IDP- and refugee-producing
    states. Antipersonnel mines
    planted by both government
    forces and ethnic armed groups
    injure and kill not only enemy
    combatants but also their own

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Much of what is happening in the conflict zones of
    eastern Burma is difficult to capture with photos, video
    and reports. It is a slow and insidious strangulation of the
    population rather than an all-out effort to crush them...

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    The population of Yangon has experienced coercive
    resettlement on a truly massive scale under military rule..."With its ‘huts to
    apartments’ scheme, the SPDC claims
    to have placed many squatters in
    new multi-storey housing on the site
    of or near their former dwellings.
    However, forced relocation in Yangon,
    Mandalay and other cities in central
    Burma continues today; victims of
    fires, for example, are not allowed
    to rebuild their old neighbourhoods
    and residential areas are cleared to

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Most Burmese people fleeing their homes do so for a combination of reasons. The root causes for leaving, however,
    determine which ‘category’ they belong to: ‘internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) or ‘economic migrants’. There is
    some discussion as to whether people leaving their homes due to exhaustion of livelihoods options are IDPs
    according to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement1 – or not. Ashley South and Andrew Bosson present
    their views below...

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