Reports and Documentation of Crimes in Burma
All reports are arranged by their date of publications, starting out with the latest to the oldest. The reports are from various human rights organizations and advocacy groups all around the world.
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Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in Burma’s Chin State Survey findings confirm that more than 90% of households in the Chin State have suffered some form of abuse by the military, including rape, forced labor, recruitment of child soldiers, displacement, and arbitrary executions. |
Jan 2011
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Intimidation, imprisonment, and repression: The road to military victory in the 2010 Elections The Burmese people are not hopeful for any real change to come out of the 2010 elections, which are widely condemned as a mere ploy to legitimize the military junta. |
Nov 2010
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FBR REPORT: ELECTIONS: A View From the Field The 2010 elections are a farce, an attempt to legitimize tyranny. Many ethnic areas are barred from participating, but the focus on the elections provides a respite from the violence that has become the norm. |
Nov 2010
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Silencing Dissent Leading up to the 2010 Elections, hundreds of political activists, friends of activists, and ordinary civilians were arrested and thrown into prison. Torture and poor health conditions prevail in this gross abuse of human rights and oppression of free speech. |
Nov 2010
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Protracted Displacement and Chronic Poverty in Eastern Burma/Myanmar Civilians in Eastern Burma lack access to basic human needs such as water, shelter, and food. Poverty is worse here than anywhere else in the country, predominantly due to the uncertainty brought by the continuing conflict. |
Nov 2010
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Diagnosis: Critical, Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma This report finds that health and human rights are intrinsically intertwined, and both are suffering under military rule in Burma and severely restricted access to even basic health care. Rates of infant and maternal mortality are two and three times higher than the national average, which is already on of the worst in the world. |
Oct 2010
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UN General Assembly Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma The UN Special Rapporteur has made the recommendation that the Burmese government respect human rights, freedoms, and make allowances for international humanitarian aid. The Special Rapporteur also reminds the UN General Assembly that if a government ignores the human rights situation in its own country, it is the responsibility of the international community to step in. |
Oct 2010
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Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 – Burma Burma is a source country for men, women, and children who are subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and for women and children in forced prostitution in other countries. |
Jun 2010 |
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Crimes Against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas The plight of the Rohingyas has become better known since the start of 2009, in particular because of world-wide media coverage of the case of the so-called “boat people”, consisting of hundreds of Rohingyas who attempted to reach Thailand by boat… |
Jun 2010
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Displaced Childhoods The first comprehensive report documenting the experiences of internally displaced children in Burma against the backdrop of Burma’s obligations under domestic and international law. |
Apr 2010 |
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Stateless and Starving In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In this emergency report Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) presents new data and documents dire conditions for these persecuted Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. |
Mar 2010
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Walking Amongst Sharp Knives The practice of the Burmese Army to execute village heads has led to traditional Karen culture being turned upside-down, with women now being appointed village chiefs as they are seen as less likely to be killed. |
Feb 2010
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Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s documentation of testimonial evidence of the |
Feb 2010
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2,100 Displaced, Villages Burned, Schools Abandoned as Seven Burma Army Battalions Attack Reporting and photographs relayed from Free Burma Ranger teams in the field with the IDPs under attack; Burma Army attacks Ler Doh township in Western Karen State, displacing over 2,100 villagers. |
Feb 2010 |
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FBR Report: Update Of Burma Army Attacks, Murders, Displacement and Forced Labor In Karen State, Burma Updates directly from the field by FBR Relief Teams in Karen State; reports of attack, murder, forced labor, prisoner escape. |
Jan 2010 |
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Poisoned Hills According to Palaung Women’s Organization, land used for opium cultivation has increased up to 500 percent in areas of Mantong and Namkham townships between 2006 and 2009. This is far higher than estimates in the annual opium surveys of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. |
Jan 2010 |
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International Crimes Committed in Burma: The Urgent Need for a Commission of Inquiry The violations and the relevant international crimes committed by the Burmese military regime are analyzed and legally defined under the scope of Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court (ICC). FIDH, ALTSEAN-Burma, and BLC call for the establishment of an international Commission of Inquiry by the UN Security Council to investigate crimes against humanity; war crimes committed against ethnic nationalities in Eastern Burma; and other widespread and systematic human rights violations. |
Aug 2009 |
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Reflections on CEDAW 2008 In 1997, the SPDC agreed to send reports to the CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women) Committee. The Women’s League of Burma has worked tirelessly to submit to CEDAW an alternative report—or “shadow report”— that challenges the SPDC’s account of the condition of women in Burma. Reflections chronicles the WLB’s methods of research and data collection for the shadow report. |
Jan 2009 |
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“We are like Forgotten People.” In this report, Human Rights Watch documents a wide range of human rights abuses carried out by the Burmese junta. In Mizoram state, India, Chin people remain at risk of discrimination and abuse by local Mizo groups and local authorities, and of being forced back across the border into Burma. |
Jan 2009 |
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In the Shadow of the Junta The alternative report by Women’s League of Burma as submitted to CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women). |
2009 |
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High-Resolution Imagery and the Conflict in Eastern Burma Reporting from the ground in Burma has provided specific locations and dates of more than 70 attacks in Karen State and surrounding areas from late 2006 to early 2007. Satellite imagery has been used to positively locate 31 attack sites, providing concrete support for the anecdotal evidence of crimes against humanity by the SPDC. |
Sept 2007 |
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A position paper for the sixth anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325 The SPDC’s ongoing armed aggression and tyranny are continuing to oppress the women of Burma, despite SPDC claims to the contrary. This paper describes the actions that should be taken immediately by the UN Security Council and countries in cooperation with UNHCR. |
Oct 2006 |
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Driven Away: Trafficking of Kachin Women on the China-Burma Border The report is based on 63 verified and suspected trafficking cases that occurred primarily during 2000-2004. The cases involve 85 women and girls, mostly between the ages of 14 and 20. Testimony comes primarily from women and girls who escaped after being trafficked, as well as relatives, persons who helped escapees, and others. |
Sept 2005 |
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Shattering Silences Documentation of sexual violence committed by the Burmese military regime in Karen State. |
Apr 2004 |
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License to Rape A report by Shan Women’s Action Network on the systematic use of rape by the Burmese military. |
May 2002 |
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