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1. Library Resource

   

   US Committee for Refugees, Burma Report 1998

   Reports & Research

   November, 1997

   Myanmar

   Land Conflicts

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   local communities

   displacement

   Indigenous Peoples

   Situation to end 1997

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   Tenasserim Division: Forced Relocation and Forced Labour (Information Update)

   Reports & Research

   February, 1997

   Myanmar

   Land Conflicts

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   local communities

   displacement

   Indigenous Peoples

   SLORC's campaign of forced relocations and forced-labour road building in the Palauk-Palaw, Mergui and Tenasserim regions, which began in September 1996, is now being accelerated ... Almost every village between the Tavoy-Mergui-Kawthaung car road in the west and the Tenasserim River in the east, from Palauk in the north to Tenasserim town in the south has been ordered to move one or more times between September 1996 and January 1997..."
   

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   Forced Relocation and Human Rights Abuses in Karenni State, Burma

   Reports & Research

   April, 1997

   Myanmar

   Land Conflicts

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   local communities

   displacement

   Indigenous Peoples

   This report documents human rights violations carried out by troops from the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) against Karenni people in Karenni (Kayah) State in eastern Burma. Information regarding human rights abuses in the area has come from interviews with Karenni refugees who have fled into Thailand, and with officials from the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP). ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
   forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration,
   forced to move, displaced

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   Myanmar: Ethnic Minority Rights under Attack

   Reports & Research

   July, 1997

   Myanmar

   Land Conflicts

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   local communities

   displacement

   Indigenous Peoples

   This report focuses . . . human rights violations against members of ethnic minority groups. These abuses, including extrajudicial executions; ill-treatment in the context of forced portering and labour; and intimidation during forcible relocations occur both in the context of counter-insurgency operations, and in areas where cease-fires hold. The State Law and Order Restoration Council SLORC, Myanmar's military government) continues to commit human rights violations in ethnic minority areas with complete impunity.

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   Réforme agraire: Colonisation et coopératives agricoles 1997/2

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 1997

   Nigeria, Panama, Italy

   Urban Tenure

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Investments

   land tenure systems

   farmland

   public ownership

   customary tenure

   common lands

   Indigenous Peoples

   peri-urban agriculture

   land tenure

   urbanization

   land markets

   private ownership

   customary law

   urban areas

   land ownership

   indigenous people's tenure
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   Peasant Logic, Agrarian Policy, Land Mobility, and Land Markets in Mexico

   January, 1998

   Mexico

   Land & Investments

   land markets

   land tenure

   Indigenous Peoples

   land reform

   Mexican rural reform has questioned the role of the peasantry and private national producers in agriculture. The reform followed a neoliberal paradigm for incorporating the nation into the global village. As part of a government strategy, land reform in Mexico aims to change entrepreneurial and land tenure patterns in rural areas into an individual, private, large-scale, and capitalist productive structure, and the land market is vital in allowing the land transfers needed to change the land tenure pattern.