Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission - AHRC "Burma is a fertile country with abundant resources. In years gone by it was said that nobody ever starves in Burma. This has long ceased to be the case. Empirical evidence suggests that every day millions of people there go hungry, hundreds of thousands are seriously malnourished, and that some are indeed starving. This May, with the launch of the Permanent People?s Tribunal on the Right to Food and the Rule of Law in Asia, attention has again been brought to the role of the military government in Burma in denying people the right to food. Extensive research by the secretariat of the new Tribunal suggests that conditions there have not improved since the report of the earlier People?s Tribunal on Food Scarcity and Militarization in Burma (Voice of the Hungry Nation, October 1999)..."