"March 2012"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Matthew F. Smith, consultant for Human Rights Watch"--P. 83. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Map of Burma -- Detailed Map of Kachin State -- Summary and Key Recommendations -- I. Armed Conflict in Kachin State -- Brief Political History of the Kachin -- Armed Conflict and Abuse in Kachin State: 1961-1994 -- Human Rights Abuses Pre-1994 -- Events Preceding Renewed Armed Conflict in 2011 -- Renewed Armed Conflict in Kachin State: June 2011-Present -- Major Infrastructure Projects in Northern Burma -- Taping Hydropower Dam No. 1 -- Myitsone Hydropower Dam -- The Burma-China Oil and Gas Pipelines -- II. Burmese Army Abuses in Kachin State -- Torture and Forced Labor of Children -- Attacks on Civilians and Civilian Objects -- Torture, Beatings, and Other Ill-Treatment -- Rape and Sexual Violence -- Forced Labor -- Extrajudicial Killings -- Destruction of Property -- Child Soldiers -- Antipersonnel Landmines -- III. Abuses by the Kachin Independence Army -- Child Soldiers -- Landmines -- IV. Protecting Internally Displaced Kachin in Burma -- Plight of Displaced Persons -- Food Security -- Humanitarian Access -- V. International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law -- VI. Recommendations -- To the Burmese Government -- To the Burmese Parliament -- To the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Burma -- To the National Human Rights Commission -- To the Kachin Independence Organization -- To International Humanitarian Agencies and the Donor Community -- To the UN Country Team and Burma-based UN Agencies -- To the International Labour Organization -- To the Governments of Australia, China, Russia, United States, European Union, and Japan, and ASEAN Member States -- Acknowledgements.
Summary:
When Burmese President Thein Sein took office in March 2011, he said that over 60 years of armed conflict have put Burma's ethnic populations through "the hell of untold miseries." Just three months later, the Burmese armed forces resumed military operations against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), leading to serious abuses and a humanitarian crisis affecting tens of thousands of ethnic Kachin civilians. "Untold Miseries": Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Kachin State is based on over 100 interviews in Burma's Kachin State and China's Yunnan province. It details how the Burmese army has killed and tortured civilians, raped women, planted antipersonnel landmines, and used forced labor on the front lines, including children as young as 14-years-old. Soldiers have attacked villages, razed homes, and pillaged properties. Burmese authorities have failed to authorize a serious relief effort in KIA-controlled areas, where most of the 75,000 displaced men, women, and children have sought refuge. The KIA has also been responsible for serious abuses, including using child soldiers and antipersonnel landmines. Human Rights Watch calls on the Burmese government to support an independent international mechanism to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by all parties to Burma's ethnic armed conflicts. The government should also provide United Nations and humanitarian agencies unhindered access to all internally displaced populations, and make a long-term commitment with humanitarian agencies to authorize relief to populations in need--Publisher description.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)783292842
Locations:
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