Discrimination against the Shan
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
Übersetzung wichtiger Berichte von SWAN/SHRF
Hintergrundinformationen über Geschichte, Geographie, Kultur und einer Reihe zusätzlicher Links. This site carries a German translations of the important SWAN/SHRF reports, "License to Rape" - "Lizenz zur Vergewaltigung", plus a couple of related articles, and will no doubt have more in the future.
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
Deutsch, German (+some English)
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Description:
Contains pages from the Shan Human Rights Foundation, Shan Herald Agency for News, Shan State Army, The Shan Democratic Union. Lots of historical and constitutional docs on the site
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Armed conflict and peace-building in Burma - theoretical, strategic and general, Discrimination against the Shan, Shan (cultural, historical, political) articles
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
Topic:
Explosive Weapons in Civilian Areas , Landmines , Internally Displaced People
Sub-title:
Statement of Manny Maung, Myanmar Researcher, Human Rights Watch Subcommittee on International Human Rights Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development
Topic:
Explosive Weapons in Civilian Areas , Landmines , Internally Displaced People
Description:
"Study of the Impacts of Covid-19 on Internally Displaced People in Myanmar
Thank you to the Chairperson and Honorable Members of Parliament for inviting me to appear before this Committee to discuss the impacts of Covid-19 on internally displaced people in Myanmar. My name is Manny Maung and I am the Myanmar Researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Decades of conflict have resulted in over 360,000 internally displaced peoples across the country. They are mainly members of ethnic minority communities spread across northern Myanmar, in Kachin and Shan States; in western Rakhine State; and in the southeast near the Myanmar-Thai border. Renewed conflict has created fresh displacements in 2020 in both Rakhine and Shan States. Humanitarian agencies reported that the government did not take measures to ensure that they could deliver emergency aid under the government-imposed travel restrictions to protect against the spread of Covid-19.
In October, Human Rights Watch released a report, “An Open Prison without End,” on Myanmar’s detention of 130,000 Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State since 2012.[1] Human Rights Watch found that the squalid and oppressive conditions imposed on the interned Rohingya and Kaman Muslims amount to the crimes against humanity of persecution, apartheid, and severe deprivation of liberty. Starting in August 2017, a military campaign of killings, sexual violence, arson, and forced eviction of Rohingya in northern Rakhine State forced more than 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh. Human Rights Watch determined the Myanmar security forces committed ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide..."
Source/publisher:
"Human Rights Watch" (USA)
Date of publication:
2020-12-10
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-05
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Human Rights Watch Reports on Burma/Myanmar, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., Internal displacement/forced migration of Rohingyas, Internal displacement/forced migration of Kachin, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers, Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against several groups, Discrimination against the Rakhine, Discrimination against the Rohingya, Discrimination against the Shan, Discrimination against the Kachin, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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Sub-title:
Amnesty International says Myanmar military, ethnic armed groups guilty of abuses amid fighting in northern state.
Description:
"In Myanmar's northern Shan State, ethnic armed groups have been fighting the Myanmar military for more autonomy for the past 50 years.
Amnesty International says both sides are guilty of rights abuses in the ongoing fighting, which has continued since the failure of a nationwide ceasefire which was signed four years ago.
That's an issue that will dog its de facto head Aung San Suu Kyi as she starts campaigning for next year's election..."
Source/publisher:
"Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of publication:
2019-10-31
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Armed conflict in Shan State - general articles, Non-Ceasefire Groups, Discrimination against the Shan, Armed conflict in Shan State (Palaung/Ta'ang/TNLA)
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Description:
"The number of documented human rights abuses in northern Shan State has increased dramatically over the past three months compared to the first quarter of the year, according to the Ta’ang Women’s Organization (TWO).
The group, which based its data on reported cases of human rights abuses committed by armed groups active in predominantly ethnic Ta’ang areas, said there were 70 abuses reported from July to September, out of a total of 80 cases in the entire first half of the year.
“The abuses include people who were killed by shelling of villages, death and injuries caused by landmines, and forcing civilians to act as porters. According to our records, at least 70 local people suffered human rights abuses during this three-month period,” TWO spokesperson Lway Chee Sangar told NMG..."
Source/publisher:
"Network Media Group" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2019-10-03
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Armed conflict in Shan State (Palaung/Ta'ang/TNLA), Discrimination against the Shan, Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar, Karenni (Kayah) - cultural, political
Language:
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Topic:
Shan State, UWSA
Sub-title:
The United Wa State Army in Shan State, which has been accused of coddling drug dealers in the areas under its control, killed eight suspected drug traffickers and seized millions of methamphetamine tablets last week.
Topic:
Shan State, UWSA
Description:
"The UWSA operation on Tuesday and Wednesday in northern Shan netted 4.8 million methamphetamine tablets and neutralised a drug-trafficking syndicate, a spokesman for the group said.
U Nyi Rang, UWSA spokesperson, said nine drug traffickers were arrested by an anti-drug task force.
“We ordered the gang to surrender, but they refused. They began firing at our men so we fired back.”
He said the UWSA had dispatched fighters to the Thai-Myanmar border after receiving a tip-off about a drug operation in the area on September 10.
U Nyi Rang said some gang members were able to flee across the Thai border during the clashes. He gave no details about the traffickers but said they were from another Myanmar ethnic group.
The UWSA, the largest ethnic armed group in Myanmar, is based in northern and eastern Shan, and has a reputation for trafficking illegal drugs all over the world. The Thai government has often accused the group of trafficking drugs across the Thai border. The UWSA has denied all accusations, saying that the drug traffickers operating in their territory were from other parts of Myanmar..."
Source/publisher:
"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-10-07
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-07
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) - Myanmar, Burma: drug production and trafficking
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Description:
"In the evening of August 18, 2019, Burma Army troops from Infantry Battalion 68 fired shells from the local temple directly into the village of Koong Sa, about 10 kilometers northeast of Lashio town, killing a 52-year-old farmer.
Early that morning, Brotherhood Alliance troops had passed near Koong Sa. Soon afterwards, Burma Army IB 68 troops began firing shells towards Koong Sa and nearby villages from about five kilometers to the west, damaging several houses. Burma Army helicopters also dropped bombs in the nearby jungle, causing many villagers to start fleeing from their homes.
Around midday, about fifty IB 68 troops, led by Major Aung Gyi, entered Koong Sa and set up camp in the village temple, where many villagers were taking shelter. That evening, at about 6 pm, these troops began firing 60 mm shells directly into Koong Sa village.
One of the shells fell near 52-year-old Loong Aye, who was searching for his family at a neighbour’s house, about 200 meters from the temple. Shrapnel struck him in the chest, killing him instantly. His body was picked up by a social welfare group the next day and taken to Lashio Hospital, then cremated..."
Source/publisher:
"Shan Human Rights Foundation"
Date of publication:
2019-08-29
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-10
Grouping:
Individual Documents
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"Serious abuses against civilians in northern Shan State have traumatized the local population, according to the Ta’ang Women’s Organization.
Despite the Burma Army’s extension of its unilateral ceasefire in northern Shan State, human rights abuses remain a serious problem in the Ta’ang area in the region, according to the Ta’ang Women’s Organization (TWO).
The group says that it documented more than 80 cases of serious human rights violations in northern Shan State in the first six months of this year.
“There are a total of 85 people. They were tortured, threatened, and sexually abused. Some were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment. Some are still in custody in jail. Some have completely disappeared,” Lway Chi Sanga, the spokesperson for the TWO, told NMG.
According to statistics compiled by the TWO between January and June 2019, there were 30 cases of people being arrested, of whom 11 are still in jail or prison. There were also 30 cases of torture, three of murder, and two of sexual assault. Landmines claimed 20 civilian casualties, including five who died from their injuries..."
Source/publisher:
"BNI Multimedia Group"
Date of publication:
2019-07-25
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-18
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Individual Documents
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"On July 6, 2019, a Lahu villager was beaten by Burma Army troops of LIB 579 when buying rice in his
village, Wan Mong Lieng, Mong Lieng village tract, Mong Peang township, Mong Hsat district, eastern
Shan State.
On that day, at 6 pm, 32-year-old Ja Paw, went into a rice shop to buy rice, when he met 20 Burma Army
soldiers from LIB 579, who asked him whether he was taking the rice to Shan troops. They punched him
seven times, as they questioned him: “Are you buying the rice for the Shan troops?”
He replied: “No, I am just buying it for myself. I am going into the jungle to collect some herbal medicine
to sell.”
The Burma Army soldiers interrogated him for an hour before letting him go.
Burma Army LIB 579 is based in Mong Hsat, supervised by Military Operations Command 14 under the
control of the Triangle Regional Command in Kengtung, eastern Shan State
Wan Mong Lieng village has 30 households, Shan and Lahu. Ja Paw is the son of Loong Ja Hay and Pa Na
Hay, who are both Wan Mong Lieng villagers. On July 13-15, 2019, Burma Army troops from LIB 554, based in Mong Tum, went on patrol around Wan
Na Koon Hsai, Mong Pu Awn village tract, Mong Peang township, eastern Shan State, and looted the
local villagers’ livestock and vegetables.
On July 13, 2019 at 8 am, about 30 troops from this unit looted chili, mustard leaves and a duck, all
worth 15,000 kyats (=10 US$) belonging to Loong Kyaung Phoe Ma and Pa Kyaung Wo Jing, in Wan Na
Koon Hsai village.
On July 14, 2019 at 3 pm, the same troops came to steal three ducks worth 30,000 kyat (=20 US$) from
Pu Lai Hsy Hseng and Pa Lai Hsy Lu in Wan Na Koon Hsai again.
On July 15, 2019 at 7 am, the same troops came to steal three ducks worth 24,000 kyats (=16 US$) from
Loong Kyaung Phoe Ma and Pa Kyaung Wo Jing, in Wan Na Koon Hsai village.
The soldiers stayed outside the village, but came into the village to steal food...ရှမ်းပြည်အေရှေ့ပိုင်း၊ မိုင်းပျဉ်းမြို့နယ်တွင် ဆန်ဝယ်ပြီးပြန်လာသည့် ဒေသခံရွာသားတဦးကို အစိုးရစစ်တပ်၊ တပ်သားများက ရိုက်နှက်စစ်ဆေးခြင်း"
Source/publisher:
"Progressive Voice" via Shan Human Rights Foundation
Date of publication:
2019-07-25
Date of entry/update:
2019-08-06
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Individual Documents
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"Life is going from bad to worse for about 6,000 Shan villagers stuck in six camps for the displaced close to the Thai-Myanmar border.
First, food aid was cut by international donors about 18 months ago, and recently Myanmar troops fired artillery shells near their camps, while drones have flown over their homes and citizens have been prevented from growing rice on nearby land.
A new report, unveiled in Bangkok last Thursday (see video below), describes intimidation and other measures that are making life hellish for impoverished citizens stuck near the border of southern Shan state and northern Thailand.
Displaced people in the camps were part of a mass exodus in the mid-to-late 90s when up to 300,000 people fled brutal massacres and forced eviction from their original villages in central Shan state, some of which were earmarked for the huge Tasang dam on the Salween River – a 7,000 megawatt project backed by Chinese and Thai utilities now known as the Mong Ton Dam.
Most of those people were allowed to cross the border into Thailand and work in the north on orange plantations in Fang district and construction sites in Chiang Mai.
But the security situation has become increasingly precarious for displaced villagers in the small camps along the border – Loi Kaw Wan, Loi Sarm Sip, Loi Lam, Loi Tai Leng and Kong Moong Murng, as well as Koung Jor near Wiang Haeng in northern Chiang Mai province. All of these sites had food support cut by international donors in late 2017.
The Shan Human Rights Group (SHRG) says the Myanmar Army, or Tatmadaw, has been reinforcing positions around five Shan IDP camps, while building new roads and sending out drones to monitor the displaced Shan, despite a ceasefire deal agreed to by the Shan State Army.
It said that in February six 120-mm shells were fired at two IDP locations. “Terrified IDPs have been preparing bunkers and carrying out evacuation drills in preparation for further attacks,” the group said..."
JIM POLLARD
Source/publisher:
Asia Times
Date of publication:
2019-05-26
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-27
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Armed conflict in Shan State - the human rights situation, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Shan refugees in Thailand
Language:
English
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Description:
''The Rohingya crisis continues to take a heavy toll on the nearly one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Rohingya remaining in Myanmar, and Myanmar’s international reputation, and remains a significant barrier to peace. No durable solution is on the horizon for the refugees, most of whom are in crowded camps exposed to health and natural disaster risks. Muslims remaining in Rakhine State suffer increasingly entrenched conditions of apartheid, with limited access to essential services and livelihoods. The human catastrophe on both sides of the border represents a major threat to peace and security. The ethnic Rakhine are also on a collision course with Naypyitaw, particularly over the detention and potential high treason conviction of a key Rakhine leader. This has undermined the Rakhine population’s confidence in politics and is driving broad support for the Arakan Army insurgency, which has sharply escalated attacks and threatens to tip the state into prolonged armed conflict. Elsewhere, in the north east, armed conflict has eased due to the unexpected declaration by the military on 21 December of a unilateral ceasefire in Shan and Kachin States. However, clashes between ethnic armed groups continue, the peace process remains moribund, and insecurity is exacerbated by increasingly lucrative opportunities for armed groups in drug production, human trafficking, and a range of other illicit activities...''
Source/publisher:
International Crisis Group (ICG)
Date of publication:
2019-01-28
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-04
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Internal displacement/forced migration of Rohingyas, Discrimination against the Shan, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies)
Language:
English
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Description:
"In 2004, Ngwe Yi Pale Company began coal mining in Nam Ma tract of Hsipaw township. The mining has destroyed farmlands and irrigation sources, and caused water and air pollution, mi-pacing over 3,000 people. The Nam Ma villagers have been calling for a stop to the mining since April 1, 2016, but the company has continued expanding the mining area. In May 2016, the Burma Army carried out an attack in the area to clear out the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army, and protect the mining operations. Villagers were killed, arrested and beaten. Now, over a hundred trucks of coal are being transported out of the area each day. The villagers of Nam Ma are urging the Burmese government to immediately stop the mining operations, which are damaging their farming livelihoods, environment and health..."
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation
Date of publication:
2017-06-28
Date of entry/update:
2017-12-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Coal mining, Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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14.1 MB
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Description:
Commentary: Extortion Everywhere...
Contents: Themes & Places of Violations reported in this issue...
Acronyms...
MAP...
Situation of extortion in various government civil and social services department in Shan State...
Extortion on issuance of citizen identity cards in Keng-Tung...
Extortion on issuance of citizen identity card in Ta-Khi-Laek...
Extortion concerning electricity department in Kaeng-Tung...
Extortion by electricity department in Kaeng ?Tawng sub-township, Murng-Nai township...
Extortion by land survey department in Kaeng Tawng sub-township, Murng-Nai township...
Extortion by authorities in charge of anti-human-trafficking, at airports and checkpoints in Kaw-Law and Ta-Khi-Laek...
Extortion by members of telephone department in Kaeng-Tung...
Extortion by road and vehicle control department in Kaeng-Tung...
Situation of extortion by police and military at checkpoints in Shan State...
Extortion at checkpoints near Thai-Border in Murng-Ton.
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF)
Date of publication:
2012-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-10-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
All the reports in this month?s issue are about the use of unpaid civilian forced labourers, especially as guides and porters, and a few incidents of other violations, committed by Burmese army patrols in rural Shan State during the period from early up to late 2012......
* Commentary: Forced Labour: Forced Portering Continues
*Contents
*Acronyms
*Map
*Situation of forced portering in Nam-Zarng
*Villagers forced to serve as porters during military operation in Nam-Zarng
*Villagers forced to serve as porters after being robbed of their chickens in Nam-Zarng
*Routine use of forced labour of civilian guides and porters, and extortion, in Nam-Zarng
*Situation of forced portering in Murng-Paeng
*Villagers forced to routinely serve as unpaid guides and porters in Murng-Paeng
*Frequent forced portering causing a village to become almost deserted in Murng-Paeng
*Increased forced portering in Murng-Paeng
*Situation of forced portering in other townships
*Many days of mass forced portering in Murng-Su and Kae-See
*Frequent and lengthy forced portering causing people to flee, in Larng-Khur
*Civilian guides forced to carry ammunition in Kun-Hing
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF)
Date of publication:
2012-12-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-10-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Shan State, Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
Commentary: Land Grabbing and Related Issues and Abuses Continue...
Contents: Themes & Places of Violations reported in this issue...
Acronyms:
MAP...
Land abandoned under force seized and original owners required to buy them back, in Lai-Kha...
Burmese military let people?s militia groups grow crops on lands long cultivated by local people, in Nam-Zarng...
Situation of land grabbing and related abuses in areas under the influence of a ceasefire group ?UWSA”, in Murng-Ton...
Original local people forced to sell land, restricted from cultivating remorte farms, in Murng-Ton...
Threats of land confiscation, arrest and restrictions, in Murng-Ton...
Wresting of water from original local farmers, in Murng-Ton...
Land grabbed and resold by businessman under ?UWSA” protection, in Murng-Ton.
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF)
Date of publication:
2013-03-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-10-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Land confiscation for military, commercial and other purposes
Language:
English
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Description:
10,000 Shans uprooted, 500 houses burned in Burmese regime?s latest scorched earth campaign (press release)...
Map of villages forcibly relocated...
Summary of villages forcibly relocated...
Images of the Burmese regime?s latest scorched earth campaign
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF), Shan Women?s Action Network (SWAN), Shan Relief and Development Committee, Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation, Shan Youth Power, Shan Health Committee
Date of publication:
2009-08-13
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Forced relocation of Palaung, Shan and Wa, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers
Language:
English
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Description:
A report on forced relocation and extrajudicial killings in Shan State, Burma. Since the publication of "Uprooting the Shan," the report by the SHRF detailing the forced relocation program carried out by the SLORC in Shan State during 1996, the SLORC military regime (recently renamed the State Peace and Development Council or SPDC) has been continuing to uproot more villages throughout 1997 and early 1998. Many of the relocation sites that were the results of 1996 relocations have been forced to move again. Human rights abuses such as mass killings, rape, torture and looting have been committed repeatedly by the SPDC troops against the displaced population. This has prompted the need to publish this updated report, containing more complete lists and maps of the relocated villages, and detailing the many extrajudicial killings committed by the military regime in the areas of relocation. We hope that this report will give a clearer picture to the international community of the devastating effects of the forced relocation program on the population of Central Shan State. KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation
Date of publication:
1998-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-25
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Forced relocation of Palaung, Shan and Wa, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers
Language:
English
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Description:
Civilians in the central Shan State are suffering the enormous consequences of internal armed conflict, as fighting between the tatmadaw, or Myanmar army, and the Shan State Army-South (SSA-South) continues. The vast majority of affected people are rice farmers who have been deprived of their lands and their livelihoods as a result of the State Peace and Development Council?s (SPDC, Myanmar?s military government) counter-insurgency tactics. In the last four years over 300,000 civilians have been displaced by the tatmadaw, hundreds have been killed when they attempted to return to their farms, and thousands have been seized by the army to work without pay on roads and other projects. Over 100,000 civilians have fled to neighbouring Thailand, where they work as day labourers, risking arrest for "illegal immigration" by the Thai authorities.
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/11/00)
Date of publication:
2000-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-25
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles
Language:
English, Francais
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Description:
It has now been over three years since the tatmadaw, or Burmese army, started a mass forcible relocation program of hundreds of thousands of Shan civilians. In March 1996 the army began to relocate over 300,000 members of the Shan ethnic minority in central Shan State in an effort to break up any links between civilians and members of the Shan State Army - South (SSA), an ethnic minority armed opposition group. After villagers were relocated, they were forbidden from returning to their homes and farms to work in their fields and collect belongings -- those who disobeyed were frequently shot on sight by Burmese troops. In addition relocated Shan civilians were used as a pool of labourers to do work without pay and against their will. Keywords: Ethnic groups, forced labour, indiscriminate killing, refugees, displaced people, military, farmers, extrajudicial execution. ... ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/13/99)
Date of publication:
1999-06-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-21
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English, French
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Description:
The last two years have seen a profound deterioration in the human rights situation throughout the central Shan State in Myanmar. Hundreds of Shan civilians caught in the midst of counter-insurgency activities have been killed or tortured by the Burmese army. These abuses, occurring in a country which is closed to independent monitors, are largely unknown to the outside world. Denial of access for human rights monitors and journalists means that the full scale of the tragedy can not be accurately calculated. Therefore the information presented below represents only a part of the story.
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/05/98)
Date of publication:
1998-04-15
Date of entry/update:
2010-07-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Armed conflict in Burma - Impact on village life, including health and education, Discrimination against the Shan, Forced relocation of Palaung, Shan and Wa, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers
Language:
English
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Description:
Deutsche Übersetzung des Artikels "Licence to rape"
Die in Nordthailand im Exil ansässige Menschenrechtsorganisation "Shan Women?s Action Network" (SWAN) erstellte im Mai 2002 einen umfassenden und detaillierten Bericht über die weitverbreitete Anwendung sexueller Gewalt gegen Frauen und Mädchen im Shan Staat (im Nordosten des burmesischen Staatsgebiets). Dieser Bericht trägt den schockierenden Titel:
"License to Rape" - Lizenz zur Vergewaltigung
Der Report belegt detailliert, dass das burmesische Militär in systematischer Weise Vergewaltigungen als Mittel der Kriegsführung gegen das Volk der Shan benutzt
Inhalt
Vergewaltigung als "Kriegswaffe" geduldet
Militarisierung verursacht zunehmende Gefährdung durch Vergewaltigung
Zwangsarbeit
Die Überlebenden
Sexuelle Gewalt als internationales Verbrechen
Shan Herald Agency for News- Deutsche Übersetzung: Freunde der Shan
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan
Date of publication:
2002-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2006-08-11
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Shan (cultural, historical, political) articles
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Description:
"This document presents new evidence of a consistent pattern of unlawful
killing and ill-treatment of members of Burma's ethnic minorities by
security forces, including the army and police. It is a follow-up to a
document published in May 1988, Burma: Extrajudicial Execution and Torture
of Members of Ethnic Minorities. That document presented evidence of
unlawful killings and torture of members of the Karen, Kachin and Mon
ethnic minorities. This document provides information about allegations of
similarly severe violations of the human rights of members of the Shan
ethnic minority. It also describes the cases of two or three Shan who may
be prisoners of conscience. There is information suggesting they may be
imprisoned because of their ethnic background and their non-violent
political opinions or peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of
expression..."
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/10/88)
Date of publication:
1988-08-00
Date of entry/update:
2006-04-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against several groups, Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Torture and ill-treatment: reports of incidents in Burma
Language:
English
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Summary:
"Wrong-headed agricultural and development policies, counter-insurgency activities, as well
as corruption and cronyism by the Burmese military regime, have all caused a dramatic
decrease in rice production and food security in southern Shan State over the past ten years.
The township of Mong Nai provides a good example of how food security, commonly defined
as the physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times, has
been put in a precarious condition despite the regime?s claims that it is achieving self-sufficiency
and agricultural development. In the past Mong Nai was well known for its fertile land and
abundant production of quality rice. Even though people could not make much income from
their crops, they had enough to survive. Since 1994, however, a series of national policies and
initiatives have led to a decline in rice production, the abandonment of fertile fields, and the
exodus of thousands of residents to neighbouring Thailand.
In order to implement its national rice procurement policy, the State Peace and Development
Council (SPDC) set up a paddy (unmilled rice) buying center in the town of Mong Nai in
1994. Farmers were forced to sell rice to the regime at depressed prices (about one quarter
of the normal market price) based on the acreage of land they customarily tended and regardless
of actual crop yields. This center, and how its quota system was implemented, disrupted
farmers? access to their own rice harvests and drove many into debt. The SPDC proudly
announced the abolishment of this system and the opening of a market-oriented economy in
2003. However, new practices have been able to ensure that the military maintains its own
stores of rice at the expense of local populations. agriculture, and led to decreased rice production and food security in the township. The
amount of rice fields under cultivation has decreased by approximately 56% since 1994
while the population has decreased by approximately 30%. The drastic decrease in upland
agriculture has practically wiped out the cultivation of sesame and the subsequent production
of sesame oil in the township, while a wide variety of beans, fruits, and other vegetables are
also not cultivated. Restrictions on trade and travel have made foodstuffs harder to get and
more expensive.
Contrary to the regime?s claims, Burma is not on the road to self-sufficiency and food security."...
Table of Contents:
Summary.2;
Background 4;
Food and Agriculture Situation Before 1994 5;
Rice Procurement Policy/the Quota System 6;
Forced Relocation 7;
Map 1: Rice Cultivation and Villages in 1994 8;
Map 2: Rice Culitvation, Remaining Villages and Confiscated Lands in 2005 9;
Land Confiscation 10;
Restricted Movement 12;
Trading Restrictions 13;
Forced Planting of Summer Paddy 13;
Conclusion: The Situation Today 15...
Appendix 1: Decrease in Rice Production in Mong Nai Township 1994-2005 16.
Source/publisher:
Shan Relief and Development Committee (SRDC)
Date of publication:
2006-01-00
Date of entry/update:
2006-01-18
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Right to food: reports of violations in Burma, Discrimination against the Shan, Agricultural land confiscation/grabbing, Land rights, Policies leading to food insecurity in Burma
Language:
English
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Description:
Deutsche Übersetzung des montalichen Menschenrechtsbericht der Shan Human Rights Foundation. Monthly Human Rights report of the SHRF.
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan - Friends of the Shan
Date of publication:
2003-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Description:
Deutsche Übersetzung des montalichen Menschenrechtsberichts der Shan Human Right Foundation. Monthly report of the SHRF.
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan - Friends of the Shan
Date of publication:
2003-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-26
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Description:
Introduction, interviews, maps and photos, including of crops sprayed with the defoliant 2,4-D (an Agent Orange ingredient) supplied to the Burmese military by the US Government.
Source/publisher:
Project Maje
Date of publication:
1987-06-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Militarisation, Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
Continued Forced Relocations and Displacement in Shan State. "This report aims to provide a picture of the current situation in central Shan State, where the military junta ruling Burma has forcibly uprooted and destroyed over 1,400 villages and displaced well over 300,000 people since 1996. This campaign against civilians is still continuing after 4 brutal years, leaving much of the Shan population homeless. In this report, some of the villagers who both lived in relocation sites and hid in the jungle to avoid relocation describe their experiences. Further background and detail on the campaign to uproot the Shan can be found in the previous Karen Human Rights Group reports "Killing the Shan" (KHRG #98-03, 23/5/98) and "Forced Relocation in Central Shan State" (KHRG #96-23, 25/6/96), which are available online at this web site or by request from KHRG, and in the April 1998 report "Dispossessed: Forced Relocation and Extrajudicial Killings in Shan State" by the Shan Human Rights Foundation." ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #2000-03)
Date of publication:
2000-04-05
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Forced relocation of Palaung, Shan and Wa, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers
Language:
English
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Description:
"The interviews in this report are with people from 2 areas over 300 kilometres apart: Mong Hsat in southeastern Shan State, about 70 km. west of Tachilek and 50 km. north of the Burma-Thai border, and Hsipaw in northwestern Shan State, along the main road from Mandalay to Lashio. Forced relocation (Interviews #1,3,4), land confiscation for Army camps (#1-4), land confiscation for Army farms (#1,2,5), land confiscated for resale by the Army (#4), land confiscation for Mong Hsat airport extension (#3,4), crop confiscation (#1,3), meat confiscation (#4,5), cash extortion (#1,3-5), forcing villagers to buy mules for the Army (#4,5), logging (#1), climate change due to logging (#1,2), hardship caused by visit of foreign Ambassadors (#1), corruption on airline flights (#4), SSA abuses (#1), USDA (#1), "People?s Desires" (#1). Forced Labour: Farming (#1-4), roads (#4,5), pagoda (#1), Army camps (#2,3, 5), porters (#1,4,5), in town (#1), preparing for visit of foreign Ambassadors (#1)..."
ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #96-26)
Date of publication:
1996-07-27
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
"This report aims to provide a picture of the current situation in central Shan State, where the military junta ruling Burma has forcibly uprooted and destroyed over 1,400 villages and displaced over 300,000 people since 1996. This campaign against civilians is still continuing, and the number of villages destroyed is increasing each month. In this report, some of the villagers who have fled in 1997 and 1998 describe their experiences. Further background and detail on the campaign to uproot the Shan can be found in the previous Karen Human Rights Group report "Forced Relocation in Central Shan State" (KHRG #96-23, 25/6/96), and in the April 1998 report "Dispossessed: Forced Relocation and Extrajudicial Killings in Shan State" by the Shan Human Rights Foundation ..." ..... ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced relocaton, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #98-03)
Date of publication:
1998-05-23
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan, Forced relocation of Palaung, Shan and Wa, Internal displacement/forced migration of Shan. Palaung and Wa villagers
Language:
English
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Description:
"The Burmese military regime?s use of sexual violence in the ongoing war in Shan State...This report details 173 incidents of rape and other forms of sexual
violence, involving 625 girls and women, committed by Burmese army
troops in Shan State, mostly between 1996 and 2001...
The report gives clear evidence that rape is officially condoned as a
?weapon of war? against the civilian populations in Shan State. There
appears to be a concerted strategy by the Burmese army troops to rape
Shan women as part of their anti-insurgency activities. The incidents
detailed were committed by soldiers from 52 different battalions. 83%
of the rapes were committed by officers, usually in front of their own
troops. The rapes involved extreme brutality and often torture such as
beating, mutilation and suffocation. 25% of the rapes resulted in
death, in some incidences with bodies being deliberately displayed to
local communities...Evidence in this report has revealed that the Burmese military regime is using rape on a systematic and widespread scale as a
?weapon of war? against the ethnic populations in Shan State. It has also illustrated that the increased militarization of the region has
greatly increased the vulnerability of women and girls to rape. Examining the jurisprudence from the ICTY and ICTR on sexual
violence as an international crime, illustrates there is a strong case that war crimes and crimes against humanity are being
committed by the Burmese army in Shan State.
The rape survivors have no recourse either to legal processes, or to any crisis support inside Shan State. Those fleeing to Thailand
are also denied their right to protection and humanitarian assistance, and are liable to deportation at any time...".....Available in Shan,Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Hindi
Source/publisher:
Shan Human Rights Foundation, Shan Women
Date of publication:
2002-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma, Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English, Shan, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Hindi
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Description:
Amnesty International is concerned that the Burmese army has arbitrarily detained, extrajudicially killed, tortured and ill-treated members of ethnic minorities in the Shan and Mon States and the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Division in eastern Myanmar. This report is drawn from January and February 1996 interviews with dozens of members of the Shan, Akha, Lahu, Karen, and Mon ethnic minorities in Thailand. Most of these refugees are farmers and villagers who said they had fled from their homes because their lives were made impossible by the security forces.
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/38/96)
Date of publication:
1996-08-08
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Armed conflict in Burma - Impact on village life, including health and education, Discrimination against the Shan, HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English and French
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Description:
In central Shan State of Burma, since May 1998 until the present, over 400 Shan villagers in Parng Long district have died with symptoms of poisoning. According to Shan human rights workers and local Shans, the sudden deaths began after the dumping by the Burmese military of thousands of poisoned rats into the Pawn River, the only source of water for the over 10,000 villagers in Wan Nong Wan Koong village in Pamg Long.
Aung Zaw
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 7. No. 2
Date of publication:
1999-02-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
Shan State has played a pivotal role in Burma?s modern political history, but its culture and people have been under siege since the spirit of the historic Panglong Agreement was killed along with Aung San and other assassinated independence leaders in 1947, writes Irrawaddy culture editor Min Zin. Once known as the "land of the Sunset Kings", the homeland of the Shan is now struggling to emerge from the shadow of Burmese cultural hegemony.
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol.8. No. 6
Date of publication:
2000-06-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
"Deterioration of the economic and human rights situation and increase in opium and amphetamine production in Ho Murng with the SLORC occupation which followed the surrender and departure of Khun Sa..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #98-07)
Date of publication:
1998-06-13
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
"In December 1993, SLORC launched its first-ever major offensive against the territory of the Mong Ta Army (MTA) led by Khun Sa, who is generally referred to internationally as a ?drug warlord?. The SLORC has put a lot of effort into publicizing this internationally as a military offensive to eradicate narcotics, and has even asked the U.S. for military assistance. However, most Burma watchers agree
that this is not an anti-narcotics offensive, pointing to the fact that the SLORC never attacked Khun Sa
until he started making very strong Shan Nationalist noises: demanding that all Burmese troops leave Shan State, proclaiming its independence and having himself declared President. Furthermore, satellite photos and other evidence show that most of the opium is not being produced in Khun Sa?s territory at all, but in territory controlled by SLORC and its ceasefire partners like the Wa and Kokang. It seems more likely that the main purpose of this offensive is to strengthen SLORC?s control in Shan State, using drug eradication? as an excuse for a brutal campaign. Regardless of Khun Sa?s real or perceived faults and the question of his sincerity, many people in Shan State are rallying to his Shan Nationalist line, encouraged by the fact that his is the only army in Shan State currently fighting the common enemy, SLORC..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) Regional & Thematic Reports
Date of publication:
1994-08-20
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
Recent Reports of Burmese Military Human Rights Abuse in the Shan State.
Source/publisher:
Project Maje
Date of publication:
1988-06-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
English
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Description:
Deutsche Ünberstzung des monatlichen Menschenrechtsberichts der SHRF. Monthly SHRF human rights report.
SHRF
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan - Friends of the Shan
Date of publication:
2003-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2003-03-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Description:
Deutsche Ünberstzung des monatlichen Menschenrechtsberichts der SHRF. Monthly SHRF human rights report.
SHRF
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan - Friends of the Shan
Date of publication:
2003-02-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-02-28
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Description:
Deutsche Übersetzung des monatlichen Menschenrechtsberichts der SHRF. Monthly SHRF human rights report.
SHRF
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan - Friends of the Shan
Date of publication:
2003-01-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-01-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
Deutsch, German
more
Description:
Deutsche Übersetzung des monatlichen Menschenrechstberichts des SHRF. Monthly SHRF human rights report.
SHRF
Source/publisher:
Freunde der Shan - Friends of the Shan
Date of publication:
2002-12-00
Date of entry/update:
2002-12-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Shan
Language:
Deutsch, German
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