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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2000
    Myanmar

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  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2000
    Myanmar

    War disrupts the normal relationship between people and place.
    Displaced by war, people must adapt to survive, both physically and
    socially. When people are displaced for a long time, these
    adaptations become normal; thus displacement starts as an
    aberration but becomes a constant way of life. In eastern Burma,
    'normal' displacement has led to significant changes in the political,
    cultural and economic relationships between Karen people and their
    'place' - both the physical space they occupy and their position in

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2000
    Myanmar

    The Pa-O are one of the ethnic minorities of Burma. They live primarily in the Taunggyi area of southwestern Shan State. A smaller number live in the Thaton area of Mon State in Lower Burma. The Pa-O in the Thaton area have become "Burmanized" -- like their neighbors the Mon and Karen, they have adopted Burmese language, dress and customs. The Pa-O in southwestern Shan State have learned to speak Shan, but have maintained their own distinct language and customs, including their traditional dark blue or black dress.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2000
    Myanmar

    Deportation from Thailand of Burmese migrants, half of whom are women

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2000
    Myanmar

    Roads, Relocations, and the Campaign for Control in Toungoo District. Based on interviews and field reports from KHRG field researchers in this northern Karen district, looks at the phenomenon of 'Peace Villages' under SPDC control and 'Hiding Villages' in the hills; while the 'Hiding Villages' are being systematically destroyed and their villagers hunted and captured, the 'Peace Villages' face so many demands for forced labour and extortion that many ofthem are fleeing to the hills.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2000
    Myanmar

    Biome: Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests...
    Size: 25,700 square miles...
    Conservation Status: Vulnerable.....

    Introduction:
    "The Myanmar Coastal Rain Forests [IM0132] are a diverse set of climatic niches and habitats that include flora and fauna from the Indian, Indochina, and Sundaic regions. Though low in endemism, this ecoregion has a tremendous species diversity. However, the forests have been increasingly destroyed to make way for agriculture, and poaching has become the dominant threat to the remaining wildlife populations.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2000
    Myanmar

    The worsening situation of the internally displaced in all northern Karen districts, forced labour and convict porters, rice quotas, the desperate situation of rank-and-file SPDC soldiers, forced repatriation of refugees in Thailand, and the SPDC's persistence in denying that there is any problem whatsoever.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2000
    Myanmar

    Pa'an, Dooplaya, Toungoo, Papun, & Thaton Districts. Over 250 orders dating from mid-1999 through late September 2000, the vast majority of them from the latter half of that period. Includes restrictions on the movement of villagers, forced relocation, demands for forced labour, extortion of money, food, and materials, threats to villagers and other demands, as well as documents related to rice quotas which farmers are forced to give, education and health.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2000
    Myanmar

    Biome: Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests...
    Size: 53,400 square miles...
    Conservation Status: Vulnerable.....

    Introduction:
    "Like many of the region's lowland forests, the Irrawaddy Moist Deciduous Forests [IM0117] ecoregion has been intensively cultivated and its forests converted over hundreds of years. As a consequence, most of the region's biodiversity has been extirpated, and because of political forces over the past few decades very little current information on the biodiversity status of this ecoregion is known.

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