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1. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007, ICBL, October 2007.

2. Source: Ibid.

3. Source: “Burmese Darfur: The Silent Genocide of Myanmar," Der Spiegal Online, 6 September 2007.

4. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007, ICBL, October 2007.

5. Source: Ibid.

6. Sources: Landmine Monitor 2007, ICBL, October 2007; “Burma/Myanmar: Three Non-State Armed Groups Pledge To Halt Antipersonnel Mine Use,” ICBL, 17 April 2007.

7. Sources: Ibid.

8. Source: “Burma/Myanmar: Three Non-State Armed Groups Pledge To Halt Antipersonnel Mine Use,” ICBL, 17 April 2007.

9. Source: Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2006, HRDU, 25 June 2007.

10. Source: Landmines, Killings and Food Destruction: Civilian Life in Toungoo District, KHRG, 9 August 2007.

11. Source: Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2006, HRDU, 25 June 2007.

12. Source: Landmines, Killings and Food Destruction: Civilian Life in Toungoo District, KHRG, 9 August 2007.

13. Source: Ibid.

14. Source: Landmine Monitor Fact Sheet: Non-State Armed Groups, ICBL, April 2007.

15. Source: Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2006, HRDU, 25 June 2007.

16. Source: Landmine Monitor 2006 Burma/Myanmar Report, ICBL, 17 October 2006.

17. Source: Landmine Monitor Fact Sheet: Non-State Armed Groups, ICBL, April 2007.

18. Source: Landmines, Killings and Food Destruction: Civilian Life in Toungoo District, KHRG, 9 August 2007.

19. Source: “Update of the Current Situation in Northern Karen State,” FBR, 3 February 2007.

20. Sources: “KNU Press Release No. 1/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007; “Villagers Forced To Clear Land Mines: Myanmar Trade Union,” Indo-Asia News Service, 9 April 2007.

21. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 2/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

22. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 6/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

23. Source: Ibid.

24. Source: Ibid.

25. Source: Ibid.

26. Source: Provoking Displacement in Toungoo District: Forced labour, restrictions and attacks, KHRG, 30 May 2007.

27. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 6/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

28. Source: “Deaf Villager Shot and Killed at Point Blank,” FBR, 21 May 2007.

29. Source: Landmines, Killings and Food Destruction: Civilian Life in Toungoo District, KHRG, 9 August 2007.

30. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007, ICBL, October 2007.

31. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007: Thailand, ICBL, October 2007.

32. Source: Ibid.

33. Source: Ibid.


34. Source: Nyaunglebin District: SPDC operations along the Shwegyin River, and the villagers' response, KHRG, 9 December 2005.

35. Source: “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,” UNHRC, 12 February 2007.

36. Source: “Update of the Current Situation in Northern Karen State,” FBR, 3 February 2007.

37. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 2/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

38. Source: “Update of the Current Situation in Northern Karen State,” FBR, 3 February 2007.

39. Source: “Four Injured In Mine Explosions in Myanmar,” Xinhua, 24 January 2007.

40. Source: Ibid.

41. Source: “Landmine and Bomb Explode In Burma,” Narinjara News, 31 January 2007.

42. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 05/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

43. Source: “Update of the Current Situation in Northern Karen State,” FBR, 3 February 2007.

44. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 7/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

45. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 6/07,” KNU, 2 April 2007.

46. Source: “SPDC Army Attacks and Mortars Villages, Destroys Property, Extorts Villagers’ Property and Continues to Re-Supply Camps in Northern Karen State,” FBR, 26 February 2007.

47. Source: Provoking Displacement in Toungoo District: Forced labour, restrictions and attacks, KHRG, 30 May 2007.

48. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 14/07,” KNU, 11 May 2007.

49. Source: “Residents Demonstrate Against Salween Dam Project,” SHAN, 14 March 2007.

50. Source: “DKBA attacks in Dooplaya District,” FBR, 14 October 2007.

51. Source: “Myanmar Border Clashes Kill 17, Wound 19 – Rebels,” Kaowao News, 8 April 2007.

52. Source: “Oppression Up Close: Photos of the Burma Army in Northern Nyaunglebin District, Karen State, Eastern Burma,” FBR, 1 May 2007.

53. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 15/07,” KNU, 11 May 2007.

54. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 17/07,” KNU, 28 May 2007.

55. Source: “General Human Rights Violations during April 2007,” CIDKP, April 2007.

56. Source: “Rebels Clash along Thai-Burmese Border,” Irrawaddy, 24 April 2007.

57. Source: “Burmese Junta Accuses Insurgent Group in Recent Mine Attacks,” Narinjara News, 10 May 2007.

58. Source: Ibid.

59. Source: Landmines, Killings and Food Destruction: Civilian Life in Toungoo District, KHRG, 9 August 2007.

60. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 22/07,” KNU, 26 June 2007.

61. Sources: Landmines, Killings and Food Destruction: Civilian Life in Toungoo District, KHRG, 9 August 2007; “KHRG Photo Gallery 2007,” KHRG, 6 November 2007.

62. Source: “Summary Report on Military Activities in KNLA Areas for Period from June 1 2006 to May 31 2007,” KNU, 30 June 2007.

63. Source: “Landmine Death Toll Rises in Karen State,” DVB, 5 July 2007.

64. Source: “Burma Army Kills 5 Villagers and Forces 223 More Into Hiding, Nyaunglebin District, Karen State, Burma,” FBR, 9 August 2007.

65. Source: “Landmines obstruct hill-farming,” KSWDC, 27 July 2007.

66. Source: “SPDC Army Kills 5 Villagers and Forces 223 More Into Hiding Nyaunglebin District, Karen State, Burma,” FBR, 9 August, 2007.

67. Source: “Landmine Death Toll Rises in Karen State,” DVB, 5 July 2007.

68. Source: “Land Mines Prevent Villagers from Working in Farms,” NMG, 7 August 2007.

69. Source: Ibid.

70. Sources: Militarisation, violence and exploitation in Toungoo District, KHRG, 15 February 2008; “KNU Press Release No. 24/07,” KNU, 12 October 2007.

71. Sources: “Villager Killed, Two Villagers Step on Landmines and Two Villages Destroyed, More than 1,000 Flee New Attacks Northern Karen and Southern Karenni States,” FBR, 22 August 2007.

72. Sources: Ibid.

73. Sources: “KNU Press Release No. 31/07,” KNU, 12 October 2007; Villagers risk arrest and execution to harvest their crops, KHRG, 4 December 2007.

74. Source: “KNU Press Release No. 33,” KNU, 12 October 2007.

75. Sources: “Exploded Mines Not Laid By ‘Us’: MRP,” IMNA, 10 October 2007; “Insurgent-Planted Mines Killed 2, Injured 2 in Ye; SPDC,” Kaowao News, 10 October 2007.

76. Source: “SPDC Army Shoots Two Women, Burns Down Homes, and Forces More Than 130 People into Hiding,” FBR, 17 October 2007.

77. Source: “One Injured; Land Mine Blast Near DKBA House,” Kaowao News, 29 October 2007.

78. Source: Attacks, killings and increased militarisation in Nyaunglebin District, KHRG, 11 January 2008.

79. Source: “13-year-old Boy Blinded by Burma Army Landmine, Karen State, Burma,” FBR, 5 December 2007.

80. Source: Ibid.

81. Source: Militarisation, violence and exploitation in Toungoo District, KHRG, 15 February 2008.

82. Sources: “Karen Rebels Kill 8 in Burma Bus Attack,” Bangkok Post, 20 December 2007; “KNLA Ambush Passenger Truck in Karen State,” DVB, 19 December 2007.

83. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007: Thailand, ICBL, October 2007.

84. Source: Ibid.

85. Sources: “Thai Businessman Killed In Burmese Mine Blast,” Bangkok Post, 5 March 2007; “Thai Businessman Killed By Land Mine on Thai-Burma Border,” Kantarawaddy Times, 5 March 2007.

86. Sources: “Thai Dam Project in Burma Suspended,” Bangkok Post, 4 September 2007; “Environmental Coalition Urges EGAT to Abandon Salween Dam Project,” Irrawaddy, 6 September 2007; “EGAT Postpones Work on Dam Site Following Death of Surveyor,” Irrawaddy, 5 September 2007.

87. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007: Bangladesh, ICBL, October 2007.

88. Source: Ibid.

89. Source: “Bangladesh Border Security Force Recovers 26 Live Landmines on Burma Border,” Narinjara News, 20 March 2007.

90. Source: Landmine Monitor Fact Sheet: Non-State Armed Groups, ICBL, April 2007.

91. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007: India, ICBL, October 2007.

92. Source: Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2006, HRDU, 25 June 2007.

93. Source: Landmine Monitor 2007: India, ICBL, October 2007


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