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.
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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.
Forced Relocations, Killings and the Systematic Starvation of Villagers in Dooplaya Distric
This report consists of an Introduction and Executive Summary, followed by a detailed analysis of the situation supported by quotes from interviews and excerpts from SPDC order documents sent to villages in the region.
Executive Summary:
"The impact of decades of military repression on
the population of Burma has been devastating.
Hundreds of thousands of Burmese have been
displaced by the government�s suppression of
ethnic insurgencies and of the pro-democracy
movement. As government spending has concentrated
on military expenditures to maintain its
Conflits armés et crises alimentaires contribuent à leur manière à urbaniser
l’Afrique sub-saharienne lorsque les villes jouent un rôle de refuge et que les combats
se déroulent à la campagne. Malgré l’évacuation de ses habitants lors de la chute du
régime Habyarimana en 1994, la capitale du Rwanda n’a pas démenti ce schéma et
The purpose of this Act is to promote the proper land use and improve the environment in rural community.
Reviews recent practices relating to displacement, resettlement, rehabilitation and development of people negatively affected by the construction of dams, in order to locate the global experiences in dam induced displacement and understand the socio-political context of displacement and resettlement.
An Act various Acts, so as to provide for the deeds registries regulations board to make regulations regarding the manner in which the payment of the fees of office may be enforced, to validate certain acts, as to provide for the amendment, withdrawal and lapsing of conditions, to exclude issues concerning the definition of "occupier", and to provide for the secondment of judges and appointment
Main Objectives
and Activities:
Ensure that the fundamentals of
international protection, particularly
the principles of asylum and nonrefoulement,
are respected and effectively
implemented; ensure that
refugee populations at the Thai-
Myanmar border are safe from
armed incursions, that the civilian
In some countries, the internally displaced are beyond the reach of international humanitarian organizations.