HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
"The HURFOM was founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths, and it main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma. HURFOM is a non-profit organization and all its members are volunteers who have the same opinion for the same aim. By accepting the main aim, we would like to participate in struggle for the establishment of a democratic Burma doing our part as a local ethnic human rights group, which is monitoring the human rights situation in Mon territory and other areas southern part of Burma. We provide information and reports to all campaign organizations to get helps from the international community for democratic reform in Burma. For this project, HURFOM has produced a monthly human rights report, with the name of ?The Mon Forum” for 9 years."
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of entry/update:
2004-03-20
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Mon (cultural, political), News - Burma/Myanmar news sources in English (current sites), HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English, Mon, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description:
Lots of stuff on the site -- news, statements, research, articles in Mon and English, list of Mon organisations, links, photo gallery, Mon politics, literature and history and lots more.
Source/publisher:
Monland Restoration Council
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English, Mon
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Individual Documents
Description:
Key Findings:
1.
Between 1995 and 2017, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
has
documented the widespread and systematic violation of human rights by the Burma
Army and Ethnic Armed Organizations
(
EAOs
)
in Mon S
tate and Mon areas of
southeast Burma
.
The majority of the perpetrators of these abuses have been able to
act with impunity and have not been held accountable for their actions
.
2.
During the reporting period, HURFOM has documented a minimum of 108 incidents
of arbitrary arrest, detention, or torture by Burma Army soldiers and EAOs, affecting
well over 3,300 individuals
.
Over 30 Burma Army battalions were implicated in these
abuses, the majority of which occurred in Ye Township, Mon State and Yebyu
Township,
Tenasserim Division
.
3.
From 1995 until 2017, HURFOM has documented over 57 incidents of extrajudicial
killings by the Burma Army and EAOs, for a minimum of 190 deaths of villagers
.
While
the majority of victims were male, HURFOM also documented the killing
of women
as well as children, some as young as ten months old
.
Over 27 different Burma Army
battalions have been implicated in these abuses
.
4.
Since 1995, HURFOM has documented over 67 separate incidents of sexual violence
committed by the Burma Army, aff
ecting over 106 women, children, and men
.
These
incidents ranged from rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, and forced participation in
beauty shows and over 27 Burma Army battalions were implicated as participating in
some form of sexual violence
.
5.
HURFOM has
documented the confiscation of over 100,000 acres of land by the
Burma government and the Burma Army, often directly related to militarization and
major economic projects in these areas
.
6.
Villagers in Burma expressed an inability to forget the violence inf
licted upon them,
and voiced desires for justice, including prosecutions, return of land, monetary
compensation, community development, demilitarization, guarantees of non
-
repetition, apologies, and peace"
.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of publication:
2017-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-13
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မွန်ပြည်လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း၏ နှစ် (၂၀) ပြည့်အမှတ်တရ ထုတ်ဝေသည့် လက်ကမ်းစာစောင်
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland - Burma (HURFOM)
Date of publication:
2014-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-19
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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pdf
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2.45 MB
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"In October 2013, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) released
"Disputed Territory", a report documenting the emerging trend of Mon farmers fighting
for recognition of their land rights in the face of unjust land and property
confiscations. The report analyzed specific barriers impeding their success, from weak
land policy and inadequate dispute resolution mechanisms, to an absence of support
from various sources.
While "Disputed Territory" explored the broad spectrum of land right violations among
Mon communities, our current report focuses more specifically on the progress, or lack
thereof, in cases of military land confiscation. In this regard, over a year has passed and
yet Mon farmers continue to find themselves in a fruitless struggle. New details of past
and on-going unjust military land acquisition continue to be brought to HURFOM and
other media outlets, on the one hand proving that Burma?s political climate has become
a safer space for victims to petition their rights, while on the other hand showing that
significant challenges continue to preclude true justice for housing land and property
(HLP) rights violations.
Since the release of "Disputed
Territory", and addressing one of
the barriers to justice it
highlighted, Mon farmers have
gained greater access to
education regarding their HLP
rights, and are more aware of
procedural requirements for
landholders under the 2012 land
laws. However, while farmers
have repositioned themselves,
armed with information and
supported by advocates,
progress remains stalled:
farmers? land rights and tenancy remain insecure, properties confiscated by the military
have not been returned, and farmers have not yet been justly compensated. Although
there are legal channels through which farmers may now petition for their rights,
appeals go unanswered. Compounding the lack of restitution for previous infractions,
Burma?s small-scale farmers continue to live under the threat of future, continued land
confiscations.
With the value of Burma?s land steadily increasing, farmers are eager to have their land
returned to them, or be provided with just compensation. Patience is running thin
among those seeking justice, as the government continues to deny responsibility for the
military?s crimes and government bodies established to resolve land disputes fail to do
so. Farmers have learned their lessons from the past, changed their strategy in fighting
for their rights, but the results remain the same.
Building on previous analysis, HURFOM contends that continuing barriers to progress lie
primarily in the country?s broken land management system, the failures of recent land
laws to secure the protection of farmers? land rights, the failure of government bodies
and authorities to perform their responsibilities unbiased from military influence, and
the total impunity of the military due to the independent structure of the courts-martial.
Ultimately, HURFOM advocates that deep structural change regarding these deficiencies
is required, in order to redress past violations and protect farmers? land security into the
future; in doing so assisting the slow process of reconciliation and trust-building
between Burma?s government and Mon populations..."
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of publication:
2015-01-31
Date of entry/update:
2015-02-19
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Land confiscation for military, commercial and other purposes, Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing), HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English
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[Despite Gen. Thein Sein?s attempts to move
towards democratization or a democratic transition}
"...the Burmese Army still operates military
offensives against ethnic rebel groups in Karen State, Shan State
and Kachin State whilst the government has conducted ceasefire
talks. Human rights violations have continued in these areas and
thousands of ethnic civilians continue to suffer from abuses
committed by troops of the Burmese Army..."
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
Date of publication:
2011-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-27
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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"Research by the Women and Child Rights Project (WCRP) has demonstrated that grave violations of children?s rights continue to occur in southern Burma despite the creation, by the United Nations, of the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) pursuant to United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1612 on Children and Armed Conflict passed in 2005.
The Burmese government has failed to meet the time-bound action plan under Resolution 1612, demonstrated by the fact that WCRP researchers found numerous accounts of ?grave violations? under United Nations Security Council?s Resolution 1612 on children and armed conflict. These violations, committed by Burmese soldiers against children in southern Burma, include recruitment of child soldiers, killing and maiming, rape and sexual abuse, and forced labor. Though the Burmese government agreed to the implementation of a monitoring and reporting mechanism (MRM), pursuant to Resolution 1612, to report on instances of these grave violations, WCRP has found that abuses have continued unabated since 2005.
The data detailed below provide evidence of widespread and systematic abuses, the vast majority of which were committed by soldiers from the Tatmadaw, the Burmese military. These confirmed cases of grave violations, taken from just 15 villages in two townships, committed over a period of 5 years, suggest that the Burmese government has failed to live up to its obligations under international law to protect children during situations of armed conflict. Limitations imposed by the Burmese government on the UN country team has made it difficult for them to receive, or verify, accounts of grave violations, in turn preventing the MRM from making a noticeable impact on the continued widespread abuse of children in southern Burma. WCRP?s data strongly suggests that the real numbers of abuses against children is vastly greater than officially recognized.
Additionally, despite the fact that WCRP?s primary research covered only the period from 2005 through November 2010, recent updated reports suggest that all of the violations documented by WCRP have continued to occur over the course of the past year. Despite the political changes that may be underway in Naypyidaw, children in areas where armed conflict is ongoing continue to suffer grave violations. Thus, the international community must take further action to ensure that the MRM can effectively protect the rights of Burma?s children and realize the objective put forth in Resolution 1612, an end to the grave violations of children?s rights..."
Source/publisher:
Woman and Child Rights Project (WCRP)
Date of publication:
2011-12-31
Date of entry/update:
2012-01-27
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Children and armed conflict, Childrens's rights in Mon State - reports of violations, Children's rights: reports of violations in Burma against more than one ethnic group, Women and Child Rights Project, home page, articles and reports, HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English
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The Mon, one of the earliest indigenous people in the Thai-Burmese area, were instrumental in disseminating Buddhism to the region. Nowadays they face a fight for cultural survival...
"
CONCENTRATED in the mountainous border area of Burma and Thailand, up to three million Mon are struggling to preserve their culture and language.
Researchers and anthropologists worry that Mon culture may disappear entirely, deliberately assimilated through the policies of both the Thai and Burmese governments.
Thai military officials observe a Mon festival in Samut Sakhon near Bangkok. (Photo: Bangkok Post)
As evidence, they point to Moulmein, the capital of Mon State in Burma, where the name of the Mon National Museum was changed by Burmese authorities to the ?National Museum,? and members of the Mon Literature and Culture Association were replaced by junta associates.
In Thailand, meanwhile, security officials pressured organizers of the annual Mon National Day festival in February to refrain from singing and dancing, to limit the festival to one day, to identify the organizers of the festival and ban the participation of unregistered workers from Burma.
In addition, Thai officials also urged the public not to support the Mon cultural events at Samut Sakhorn, home to almost 200,000 workers from Burma, the majority of whom are Mon..."
LAWI WENG
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 4
Date of publication:
2008-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2008-04-27
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Mon (cultural, political), HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon, Education in Mon State
Language:
English
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"This report does not aim to give comprehensive details of the pipeline project to date, as this has been done elsewhere. Instead, this report focusses on presenting some information and interviews related to developments in the pipeline route area, particularly since the beginning of 1995. The information and interviews used have been obtained from several sources, including the Mergui-Tavoy Information Service, the Committee for Publicity of People's Struggle in Monland, independent sources and KHRG interviews..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #95-27)
Date of publication:
1995-08-01
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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SLORC has sent in thousands of troops to secure the pipeline route and the foreigners themselves, and these troops are making life much harder for villagers in the area through forced labour and extortion. Furthermore,villagers are now being used as forced labour to clear the pipeline route itself and build supply roads for pipeline supplies. Though the oil companies are hiring labour, SLORC is using forced labour wherever possible with or without the knowledge of the companies, who simply have too few employees in the area to see what is going on. The villagers see it very well, and we have interviewed several of them who describe it. This report consists of 3 parts: a summary of the current situation of the pipeline project, interviews with villagers who have recently fled the area, and an Annex consisting of a TOTAL letter about the project (translated from French) and a map of the area.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #96-21)
Date of publication:
1996-05-23
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Report of an expert fact-finding mission in December 1999.
Particularly strong on methodology and the clinical description of torture. Includes high-quality photos. Most interviewed were Karenni or Mon... TOC: Summary; Preface; Introduction; Methods; Ethics; Results; Forced labour; Porter service; Forced relocation; Arrests; Other incidents; Looting; Killings; Rape; Disappearances; Torture; Landmine accidents; Army units; Discussion; Conclusion; Appendix, cases; References; Tables; Figures... "We interviewed and examined 129 persons who had fled Burma / Myanmar from December 1998 to December 1999, and compared the degree of reported human rights violations with that from the previously examined persons who fled November 1996 to November 1997. Of the interviewed persons, 88% reported forced labour and 77% porter service, 54% had been forcibly relocated from their villages, 87% had had their possessions looted, and 46% had lost at least one relative through killing, disappearance, or landmine accident. 20% reported that they or a near relative had been tortured. Of the former, four had remarkable scars that strongly corroborated their histories."
Hans Draminsky Petersen, Lise Worm, Mette Zander, Ole Hartling, Bjarne Ussing
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International, Denmark, Danish Medical Group, Danchurchaid.
Date of publication:
2000-03-14
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Political prisoners and other violations in Burma - reports, Discrimination against the Karenni (Kayah), Torture and ill-treatment: reports of incidents in Burma, HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English, Danish
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Map
Source/publisher:
Burmese Border Consortium (BBC)
Date of publication:
2004-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
Extortion for school-building (Interview #1), school fees (#1,2), textbooks (#1,2), school corruption (#2), threats against teachers/parents if students get involved in politics (#2), Burman-only curriculum (#2), dropout rate (#1,2), child conscription into the Army (#1), Ye Nyunt Youth (#1), USDA (#1), human rights in Thaton (#2).
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #96-16)
Date of publication:
1996-05-10
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Escaped convict "Maung Aung Shwe" (not his real name) arrived in a Mon camp in February 1995 after escaping a forced labour camp on the Ye-Tavoy railway. His story gives some insight into the life and thoughts of a criminal prisoner in Burma. Some names and details of his story have been omitted to protectthe people involved.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #95-28)
Date of publication:
1995-08-02
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Mon - the forgotten refugees in Thailand
Das Volk der Mon ist die Urbev?lkerung im heutigen Kernland von Thailand, im Gebiet von Bangkok in Richtung burmesische Grenze (Kanchanaburi Provinz) sowie im benachbarten burmesischen Bergland und im Kerngebiet des heutigen Burma mit seiner Hauptstadt Rangoon. Einst Tr?ger einer fr?hen und hochentwickelten buddhistischen Kultur, wurden sie in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten von anderen, aus Norden eindringenen V?lkern immer mehr verdr?ngt. Sie stellen heute sowohl in Thailand wie in Burma eine stark benachteiligte ethnische Minderheit dar. Die Mon in Burma f?hren seit Jahrzehnten zusammen mit zahlreichen anderen ethnischen Minderheiten einen Kampf um ihre Unabh?ngigkeit und eigenst?ndige Entwicklung. Diese Bestrebungen werden von der Milit?rjunta mit einem systematischen Vernichtungsfeldzug beantwortet.
Hans-G?nther Wagner
Source/publisher:
Netzwerk engagierter Buddhisten
Date of publication:
1994-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon, Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles, Mon (cultural, political)
Language:
Deutsch, German
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"...This report documents the continued systematic violation of internationally recognized human rights committed by the Burmese army in 1993-1994 against one of Burma's main ethnic minorities, the Mon. It also catalogues the treatment of the Mon by Thai authorities, which falls far short of international standards relating to the status of refugees and fundamental human rights principles.
Throughout 1994, thousands of Mon continued to stream into Thailand, where a small proportion were able to take refuge in camps in Thailand established in 1990, but most became illegal workers. In Thailand, however, they found a government whose foreign policy, like so many others in the region, was driven by "commercial diplomacy." Thailand was as determined to send the Mon back as it was to strengthen economic relations with the SLORC...."
Human Rights Violations of the Mon by the Burmese Government :
Arrests and Extrajudicial Executions of Suspected Rebels;
Abuses Associated With Taxation;
Forced Relocations;
Forced Labor.
Abuses of the Mon by the Thai Government:
The Attack on Halockhani Camp and the Thai Response;
The Treatment of Mon Migrant Workers by Thai Authorities;
Thai Policy Towards Mon and Other Burmese Refugees.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch/Asia
Date of publication:
1994-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
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English
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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
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Type:
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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The report includes the direct translations of some SLORC written orders sent to villages in the area of the Ye-Tavoy railway line between Mon State and Tenasserim Division, which is currently being constructed entirely by the slave labour of tens of thousands of Mon, Karen, Tavoyan and Burman villagers (see the related report "The Ye-Tavoy Railway", KHRG 13/4/94). These orders are now months old, but copies of them have only recently been obtained by the Karen Human Rights Group. The work has been ongoing since late 1993, and similar orders are still being issued now. All of the orders were signed by SLORC officers or officials, and in most cases were stamped with the unit stamp. Photocopies of the order documents themselves are available on request. Where necessary, the names of people, villages, and army camps have been blanked out and denoted by xxxx? to protect villagers. Many of the orders end with phrases like "Should you fail to obey it will be your responsibility". The villagers know that this means that should they fail for any reason, SLORC will likely send troops to loot the village, destroy some houses, seize porters, execute villagers, or in some cases shell the village with mortars.
Note: While SLORC stands for State Law & Order Restoration Council, it administers locally through State or Divisional LORC, Township LORC, Village Tract LORC and Village LORC. This abbreviation LORC (Law & Order Restoration Council) is used throughout this report.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG Set 94-E)
Date of publication:
1994-09-02
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Mon State & Tenasserim Division. May-Dec 94; Forced Labour; Threats of violence; extortion; reprisals; forced relocation. ... ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Orders Reports (KHRG #95-01)
Date of publication:
1995-01-05
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
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English
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Ye-Tavoy Railway, Dooplaya District
"This report contains direct translations of several SLORC orders sent to villages in 1995. Orders #1 thru #15 were issued in the Ye-Tavoy railway area and concern railway labour. The Burmese copies of these orders were provided to KHRG by XXXX. Orders #16 and #17 were issued to Karen villages further north in Dooplaya District..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Orders Reports (KHRG #96-22)
Date of publication:
1996-05-27
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Karen State. Aug-Nov 94. Karen Men, women, children. List of people killed, wounded, arrested, disappeared, by SLORC. Killings; wounding; EO; ransoming; looting, pillaging; forced portering; torture; arbitrary detention; extortion; inhuman treatment (beating); forced labour.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #95-02)
Date of publication:
1995-01-14
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Discrimination against the Karen, Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles, HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English
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Description:
Porters, burning of villages, interrogation & beatings by Army and MI, sentencing, conditions in Moulmein Jail, prison labour, beatings in prison, illness and death in prison, early release due to NMSP ceasefire deal.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #96-02)
Date of publication:
1996-01-09
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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"?Total Denial? catalogues the systematic human rights abuses and environmental degradation perpetrated by SLORC as the regime seeks to consolidate its power base in the gas pipeline region. Further, the report shows that investment in projects such as the Yadana pipeline not only gives tacit approval and support to the repressive SLORC junta but also exacerbates the grave human rights and environmental problems in Burma.... The research indicates that gross human rights violations, including summary executions, torture, forced labor and forced relocations, have occurred as a result of natural gas development projects funded by European and North American corporations. In addition to condemning transnational corporate complicity with the SLORC regime, the report also presents the perspectives of those most directly impacted by the foreign investment who for too long have silently endured the abuses meted out by SLORC for the benefit of its foreign corporate partners." ...Additional keywords: environment, human rights violations.
Source/publisher:
EarthRights International (ERI) and Southeast Asian Information Network (SAIN)
Date of publication:
1996-07-10
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Yadana Field - (Total, Chevron, PTTEP, MOGE), Discrimination against the Karen, Forced relocation of several ethnic groups, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon, Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Burma and the region, Oil and gas pipelines
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English
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"Three Western oil companies -- Total, Premier and Unocal -- bent on exploiting natural gas , entered partnerships with the brutal Burmese military regime. Since the early 1990?s, a terrible drama has been unfolding in Burma. Three western oil companies -- Total, Premier, and Unocal -- entered into partnerships with the brutal Burmese miltary regime to build the Yadana and Yetagun natural gas pipelines. The regime created a highly militarized pipelinecorridor in what had previously been a relatively peaceful area, resulting in violent suppression of dissent, environmental destruction, forced labor and portering, forced relocations, torture, rape, and summary executions. EarthRights International co-founder Ka Hsaw Wa and a team of field staff traveled on both sides of the Thai-Burmese border in the Tenasserim region to document the conditions in the pipeline corridor. In the nearly four years since the release of "Total Denial" (1996), the violence and forced labor in the pipeline region have continued unabated. This report builds on the evidence in "Total Denial" and brings to light several new facets of the tragedy in the Tenasserim region. Keywords:, human rights, environment, forced relocation, internal displacement, foreign investment. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: forced resettlement, forced
relocation, forced movement, forced displacement, forced migration, forced to move, displaced
Source/publisher:
Earthrights International
Date of publication:
2000-04-30
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Yadana Field - (Total, Chevron, PTTEP, MOGE), Discrimination against the Karen, Forced relocation of several ethnic groups, Oil and gas pipelines, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups., HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon, Non-ILO Reports on forced labour, including forced portering, in Burma and the region
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English
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Railway labour (items #1-8), gas pipeline fees / labour (#3,5,6), road labour (#1), Army camp labour (#4,6,8), difficulty harvesting due to forced labour (#1,4), rice confiscation (#3,4,6), rice shortage (#4), land confiscation(#1,4), forced Army conscription (#1), porter fees (#2,4,5,6,7), porters (#2,7), Mon ceasefire terms (#2), Thai repatriation plans (#5,6,8). Issues specific to railway construction: deadlines / increased demands for labour (#2,3,5,6), convict labour (#1), labour camp statistics (#1), labour of women and children (#3,5,8), beatings (#1,5,6,8), sickness (#1,3,5,6,8), collapsing embankments due to rainy season labour (#1,2,5), video cinemas (#1,5), Ministry of Railways (#1).
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports(KHRG #96-01)
Date of publication:
1996-01-05
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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From Nov 93. Karen, Mon, Burman men, women, children: Forced labour as "development". Up to 30,000 forced labourers, including old people, children and pregnant women are working on a rotating basis on the railway; no food provided; violence against women; abuse of child, economic oppression; break-up of villages; torture; inhuman treatment (beating, deprivation of food, medicine; beating to death; killings; rape; rapes followed by killing of victims; woman gave birth on site, no care, baby died; extortion; burmanisation (violation of ethnic language education rights); land confiscation; destruction of orchards; depletion or abandonment of villages.
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) Regional & Thematic Reports
Date of publication:
1994-04-13
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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TOPIC SUMMARY: Railway labour (Story #1,2,4-10,12,14,15), abuse of the elderly (#8,9,10,13), abuse of children (#1,4,6,8,10), abuse of women (#1,2,4,6,8,12), rape (#6,12,15), beatings on the railway (#1,2,4-6,8,12,15), other beatings (#1,3,4,5,10,13,15), deaths on the railway (#5,6,8,9,15), other deaths/ killings (#4,11,13,15), extortion (#1,2,6-9,12-14), looting (#1,2,3), land confiscation/ destruction (#1), forced labour for commercial logging (#3), convict labour (#5,15), political prisoners on the railway (#5), prison conditions (#5,15), porters (#1-4,9-11,13), testimony by SLORC soldiers (#4,11), abuse of soldiers (#4,11), natural gas pipeline (#9,13).
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group Regional & Thematic Reports (KHRG #95-26)
Date of publication:
1995-07-31
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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