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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Critics dismiss Asean plan for free movement of labor...

    "DESPITE the high-minded ideals of the Asean Vision 2020 plan launched more than a decade ago by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), cynics continue to dismiss its aim of labor mobility in a “community of caring societies” as just so much humbug.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2005
    Myanmar

    Karen Internally Displaced Persons wonder when they will be able to go home...

    "Sitting in his new bamboo hut in Ler Per Her camp for Internally Displaced Persons, located on the bank of Thailand’s Moei River near the border with Burma, Phar The Tai—a skinny, tough-looking man of 60 who used to hide in the jungles and mountains of Burma’s eastern Karen State—waits for the time when he can return home.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2007
    Myanmar

    Burmese residents of a US city still find it hard to escape the politics of their homeland...

    "Than Myint arrived in the “land of opportunities” as a refugee nine years ago, together with her husband and children. A native of Rangoon, Than Myint now lives in Fort Wayne, a city of some 200,000 people in the US state of Indiana. Now in her late 50s, she has learned how to survive and lead a satisfactory life in the US—the kind of existence she would never have been able to enjoy in Burma...

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2005
    Myanmar

    In addition to greater international attention on their plight in exile, Thailand’s growing community of Burmese Muslims wants a voice in the political future of their country... "...The desire for equal protection—at home and in exile—seems to be the order of the day for Mae Sot’s Burmese Muslim community. Like the majority of refugees, they wait for the opportunity to return to a free Burma.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2006
    Myanmar

    A savage onslaught by the Burmese army in Karen State has displaced thousands and seriously undermined any government talk‑ about democratic reform...

    "Up to four families squash into half-finished bamboo structures of three or four rooms built into the side of a mountain. Those on the other side of the mountain still wait for suitable shelter.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2005
    Myanmar

    Burmese paintings find their home in a Chiang Mai gallery...

    "It’s a sad reflection on the Rangoon regime’s restrictive policies on artistic expression that one of Southeast Asia’s finest collections of contemporary Burmese art isn’t to be found in Burma, but in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2006
    Myanmar

    As Burma’s military rulers settle into their new administrative capital near Pyinmana, the fate of Rangoon remains an open question

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2007
    Myanmar

    A photojournalist put aside his camera to comfort a young Karen woman at the birth of her son in a jungle hideout...

    "It was a makeshift village on the Thai side of the Moei River bordering Burma and Thailand, about 60 miles north of the Thai border town of Mae Sot. Around 100 Karen lived there, so-called “internally displaced persons,” refugees from the excesses committed by the Burmese army and the equally feared troops of the regime-backed Democratic Karen Buddhist Army...

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2004
    Myanmar

    Fifty-five years of civil war have decimated Burma’s Karen State, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes. Most would like to return—by their own will when the fighting stops.

    By Emma Larkin/Mae Sot, Thailand

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2012
    Myanmar

    ...Pho Phyu estimates that since the new government took office in March last year some 10,000 acres of farmland have been seized in Rangoon and Irrawaddy divisions alone.

    “Under the new law, millions of acres that have been seized by big companies will legally belong to them, and not the farmers,” says Pho Phyu.

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