Discrimination against the Nagas

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Description: "In the Naga Hills of Sagaing Division, in northwestern Burma, the FBR Naga team has been conducting medical and relief missions into new territories that are so remote, they receive little outside assistance or attention. The team conducts two mission per year, with the initial 2018 mission happening in Namyun Division in February. Over the course of three weeks, the Rangers provided mobile clinic services ten times to help villagers’ medical issues and conducted multiple interviews with locals to ascertain major problems and how they could provide additional assistance on future missions. The villagers reported that though they have seen some improvements in recent years, such as the Burma Army no longer forcing them to provide unpaid porters to carry their supplies, they have issues of food security, as they are reliant on their rice harvest which is dependent on unreliable weather. Although other food crops can be grown, with limited government assistance available in the event of harvest failures, their subsistence is precarious at all times..."
Source/publisher: Free Burma Rangers
2018-11-29
Date of entry/update: 2018-12-13
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
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