CIVIL WAR: Unlike the previous year, Burma?s eastern jungle along the Thai-Burma border was fairly quiet during December except for spotted exchanges of fire. ... POLITICS: on December 2, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly passed, with consensus, a resolution on the situation in Burma. This was the most strongly worded statement yet to come from the United Nations, and expresses the repulsion the world continues to feel about the gross violation of human rights... ENVIRONMENT: (TN, 4/4/92)) These dire words of ecological loss and degradation come from Pado Thaw Thi, a Karen conservationist who is struggling to preserve the ancestral forest lands within Burma?s southern-most province, the Tenasserim Division, which is home to Asia?s largest remaining forests. ... HUMAN RIGHTS: Displacement of Karen Villages, INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS: Pepsi Boycott, Germany- The European Burmese Association Hamburg organized a European Burmese Conference the end of October, British Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke has said London supports the return of Burmese Muslim refugees, ... BRIEFS: Thai Policy On Burma, Thai Banks in Burma, Repatriation of Rohingyas ...