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Chronic Emergency - Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma

Reports & Research
September, 2006
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
displacement
Indigenous Peoples
This link leads to a document containing the Table of Contents of the report, with links to the English, Burmese and Thai versions...
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The Green Monks

Reports & Research
January, 2006
Myanmar
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
sustainable land use
sustainable land management
forest conservation
Despite political restrictions, monks in Burma are a force to preserve nature...
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Conflict and displacement in Burma/Myanmar

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
displacement
Indigenous Peoples
...This chapter has described aspects of forced migration in Burma that
are under-researched, including the phenomenon of serial displacement,
and has proposed a three-part typology. Many internally displaced
persons and others move repeatedly, sometimes for a combination
of reasons; others have been displaced for some time and have found
at least semi-durable solutions to their plight; many are living mixed
with communities who are not—or have not recently been—displaced.
Forced migrants’ needs can be assessed and appropriate interventions
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GA 2006 (61st Session): Report by the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar (English)

Reports & Research
September, 2006
Myanmar
land rights
Summary:
"...
In the past two years, the reform process proposed in the “seven-point road map
for national reconciliation and democratic transition”, which was meant to become
eventually open to various relevant actors, has been strictly limited and delineated.
As a result, the political space has been redefined in narrower terms. In addition,
obstructions in the past couple of years have held back the pace and inclusive nature
of the reforms which were required for democratization. The work of the National
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Without Respite: Renewed Attacks on Villages and Internal Displacement in Toungoo District

Reports & Research
June, 2006
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
displacement
Indigenous Peoples
With the annual monsoon rains now falling over Karen State, the SPDC’s military offensive
against civilian villagers in northern Karen State would normally be drawing to a close.
However, quite the opposite is happening. The resumption of SPDC Army attacks on
villages and the increased patrols in Toungoo District shows that the offensive is far from
over. Thousands more landmines have been reportedly deployed across Toungoo District to
isolate certain parts of the district and restrict villagers’ movements. An analysis of SPDC
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Beyond Rangoon

Reports & Research
April, 2006
Myanmar
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
urban areas
As Burma’s military rulers settle into their new administrative capital near Pyinmana, the fate of Rangoon remains an open question
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Rangoon Bets on Business

Reports & Research
April, 2006
Myanmar
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
urban areas
Burma's former capital is still the country's commercial hub...

The sudden relocation of Burma's capital may have sent government officials and Burmese civil servants moving north to Pyinmana, but for those involved in business Rangoon is still the center of Burma's commercial universe.

The new capital's largest port and its main airport. While Pyinmana remains cut off from the outside world, the former capital has direct international flights to such cities as Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei...
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Offensive columns shell and burn villages, round up villagers in northern Papun and Toungoo districts

Reports & Research
June, 2006
Myanmar
Land Conflicts
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
local communities
displacement
Indigenous Peoples
...SPDC troops in northern Papun district continue to escalate their attacks, shooting villagers, burning villages and destroying ricefields. Undefended villages in far northern Papun district are now being shelled with powerful 120mm mortars. Three battalions from Toungoo district have rounded up hundreds of villagers as porters and are detaining their families in schools in case they're needed; this column is now heading south with its porters, apparently intending to trap displaced villagers in a pincer between themselves and the troops coming north from Papun district.
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Pa’an District: Land confiscation, forced labour and extortion undermining villagers’ livelihoods

Reports & Research
February, 2006
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
food security
expropriation
farming systems
land grabbing
land rights
farmland
Villagers in northern Pa'an District of central Karen State say their livelihoods are under serious threat due to exploitation by SPDC military authorities and by their Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) allies who rule as an SPDC proxy army in much of the region. Villages in the vicinity of the DKBA headquarters are forced to give much of their time and resources to support the headquarters complex, while villages directly under SPDC control face rape, arbitrary detention and threats to keep them compliant with SPDC demands. The SPDC plans to expand Dta Greh (a.k.a.
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India Woos Burma with Weapons for Gas

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Myanmar
land use
extractive industries
New Delhi's eagerness to supply Burma with weapons highlights new quid pro quo policies...

"Increased contacts between senior military chiefs oÂn both sides of the Burma-India border, involving Indian weapons sales, are believed by analysts to have two primary objectives: to help flush out Burma-based Indian insurgents and to counter growing Chinese influence in Naypyidaw.