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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2003
    Myanmar

    In a nation of 50 million people there are estimates that up to 1 million are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). Despite the relatively recent use of the phrase internally displaced people in the context of Burma, there is evidence that the practices that lead to this displacement have been in place for a long period of time.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2009
    Myanmar

    Finding Food in Fear/Living in Fear
    Introduction for ‘one family’....

    In February 2010, Burma Issues conducted a field trip inside Karen State to raise internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) awareness of the upcoming elections. While they were watching a video, the township where the IDPs were staying was attacked by the Burmese army. They had to flee into the jungle and our cameraman decided to follow.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2003
    Myanmar

    Mass Displacement by the Burmese Army's forced relocation program in Tenasserim division first rose to awareness when multi-national companies started to build the Yadana gas pipeline. What followed was a Burmese Army offensive in 1997 to KNU controlled areas to secure more of the area for their business interests. After the arrival of foreign companies and the Yadana gas pipeline the Kamoethway area became a refuge for those fleeing from the gas pipeline area. Later Kamoethway area itself became another target for Burmese troops trying to gain better access to the gas pipeline.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2003
    Myanmar

    Burma has a population of 50 million people, recent estimates place 2 million of those people as Internally Displaced
    Persons (IDP). They live precarious and transient lives in the jungles of Burma’s ethnic border areas and in the more urban
    central plains. They are denied the stability of having a home and a livelihood and are forced into a constant state of
    movement: never having the opportunity to maintain a home, their farms, access to education and medical facilities and
    peace of mind...

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2008
    Myanmar

    Executive Summary: "The people of Karenni State are living ghosts. Their daily survival is an
    achievement; however, it also signifies their further descent into poverty and a
    spiralling system of repression. Whilst this report documents the deteriorating
    situation in Karenni State over the past six years, this is nothing new for the
    ethnically diverse population of this geographically small area. They have been
    living in a protracted conflict zone for over 50 years with no respite from decades

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