Reports
License to Rape
A report by Shan Women’s Action Network on the systematic use of rape by the Burmese military.
Pro-Aid, Pro-Sanctions, Pro-Engagement
Position paper by pro-democracy organisations detailing policy on humanitarian assistance to Burma.
Chronic Emergency - Health & Human Rights in Eastern Burma
A report by the Back Pack Health Worker Team
Dignity in the Shadow of Oppression
A report by the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) documenting Burmese military attacks on unarmed women in Burma.
Failing the People of Burma?
A report by Burma Campaign UK calling for a review of DFID policy on Burma
State of Terror
A report by the Karen Women’s Organisation detailing the ongoing rape, murder, torture and forced labour suffered by women living under the Burmese military regime in Karen State.
Crimes against humanity in eastern Myanmar
This report by Amnesty International focuses on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed in Kayin State and Bago Division between 2005 through 2007. It raises grave concerns that the violations of international human rights and humanitarian law against the Karen described in this report have been part…
Internal Displacement and International Law in Eastern Burma
This report from the Thai Burma Border Consortium argues that the SPDC’s actions in Eastern Burma – forced labor, extortion and land confiscation as well as military campaigns that have displaced over 500,000 people - constitute crimes against humanity. The report concludes by arguing that the international community must move…
Crimes in Burma
A report from Harvard Law School, commissioned by some of the most respected jurists in international law, using the UN’s own reports to highlight how Burma’s generals have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
International crimes committed in Burma: the urgent need for a Commission of Inquiry
This report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma), and the Burma Lawyers Council (BLC) details the serious human rights violations perpetrated by Burma’s military regime, and demonstrates that international crimes have been – and are still being – perpetrated in Burma…
Thailand to Force 3,000 Karen Refugees Back to Burma?
3,000 ethnic Karen refugees who were forced to flee into Thailand in June 2009 are facing forced return to Burma starting on February 5th 2010. Although the Royal Thai Government and local and military representatives have officially stated that they will not force people to return, in practice they are…
Walking Amongst Sharp Knives
This report from the Karen Women’s Organisation reveals previously unreported abuses taking place against ethnic Karen women in Burma.
The practice of the Burmese Army to execute village heads has led to traditional Karen culture being turned upside-down, with women now being appointed village chiefs as they are seen as…
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma report to the UN Human Rights Council
Report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana, to the UN Human Rights Council. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the UN consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
The report states…
Displaced Childhoods
Report by Partners Relief & Development and Free Burma Rangers.
Burma’s military government, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has displaced hundreds of thousands of people with impunity, particularly in the country’s ethnic territories. This report is based on a culmination of data collected in Burma and on…
Diagnosis Critical - health and human rights in eastern Burma
This report reveals that the health of populations in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma, particularly women and children, is amongst the worst in the world, a result of official disinvestment in health, protracted conflict and the abuse of civilians.
Burma’s New Constitution - Denying Ethnic Rights
Burma Briefing No. 11
This briefing looks at the wide-ranging negative impacts Burma’s new Constitution will have on ethnic groups in Burma.
The Constitution is likely to lead to the continued Burmanisation of ethnic minorities and increased militarisation of ethnic areas, with the subsequent increase of human rights abuses…
Crisis in Shan State
Burma Briefing No. 12
On 13th March 2011 the dictatorship in Burma broke a 22 year long ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Army – North. Sixty-five clashes were reported in the first three weeks of the dictatorship breaking the ceasefire. Civilians are being targeted in the military offensive, with…
Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking from Palaung area of Burma to China
This report from the Palaung Women’s Organization reveals evidence of cases of human trafficking collected since 2007 by field workers from PWO’s Information Documentation and Research Department, who work across the Palaung area in the northern part of Shan State. Most of those trafficked were tricked into travelling to China…
Still Poisoned
Opium cultivation surging in constituency of Burma’s new ruling party
This report by the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) exposes a dramatic increase in opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Shan State in the constituency of a drug lord elected into the new military-backed parliament.
Still Poisoned, a follow-up to PWO’s…
Displacement and Poverty in South East Burma
This new report from The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) finds forced displacement in South East Burma is at its highest level in a decade, rising from an average of 75,000 per year, to 112,000. This excludes an estimated 25,000 in Kachin State. If these are included, forced displacement has…
Grabbing Land: Destructive Development in the Ta’ang Region
A new report released by Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization (TSYO) estimates that 63% of farming families have lost their land to confiscation by the Burmese military and their cronies. Despite much-publicized political “reforms” in the country, the authorities have refused to stop land confiscation, causing more threats to families’…
Reports
International crimes committed in Burma: the urgent need for a Commission of Inquiry
This report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma), and the Burma Lawyers Council (BLC) details the serious human rights violations perpetrated by Burma’s military regime, and demonstrates that international crimes have been – and are still being – perpetrated in Burma with total impunity. The violations and the relevant international crimes are analyzed and legally defined under the scope of Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The documentation provided is not intended to be exhaustive. It is, however, sufficient to show that there is clear ground for further investigation. Based on existing findings, FIDH, ALTSEAN-Burma, and BLC are calling for the establishment of an international Commission of Inquiry mandated by the United Nations Security Council to investigate: allegations of crimes against humanity; war crimes committed against ethnic nationalities in Eastern Burma; and other widespread and systematic human rights violations perpetrated in other regions of Burma that may constitute crimes against humanity.
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- Over 30,000 displaced by Burma Army attacks face humanitarian crisis in Shan State
- Burma Army gives rapists free rein in northern Shan State offensive
- Kachin women demand immediate end to Burmese regime’s use of rape as a weapon of war
- UK Minister – Government of Burma should ‘reinstate ceasefire agreements’
- British Government ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Shan State Situation
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