Help us stop mass atrocities in Burma – Myra Dahgaypaw

Giving graphic details of the some of the human rights violations the junta has perpetrated, particularly against ethnic communities and in this case against her and her family, Myra Dahgaypaw, a Karen refugee, a member of the Karen Women’s Organization and a board member of the Karen American Communities Foundation, asserts that the Burmese regime must be held accountable for all the crimes it has committed.

Made by US Campaign for Burma

Shoot on Sight

An excerpt from the video documentation of human rights abuses in eastern Burma, one of the world’s most urgent and most forgotten emergencies. The Burmese military has embarked on one of the worst offensives in its decades long campaign to destabilize the lives of rural ethnic minorities. Half a million live driven from their homes. INTERNATIONAL ACTION IS NEEDED!

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Shoot on Sight

Full video documentation of human rights abuses in eastern Burma, one of the world’s most urgent and most forgotten emergencies.

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To be the Army that People can be Proud of (Part I)

Women speak out over many years of systematic human rights violations including rape by state armed forces and authorities particularly those in ethnic areas. SPDC personnel cover up their crimes by using threats, intimidation and punishment to obtain false testimonies and statements from witnesses and even rape survivors.

Made by Women’s League of Burma

To be the Army that People can be Proud of (Part II)

Women speak out over many years of systematic human rights violations including rape by state armed forces and authorities particularly those in ethnic areas. SPDC personnel cover up their crimes by using threats, intimidation and punishment to obtain false testimonies and statements from witnesses and even rape survivors.

Made by Women’s League of Burma

Ending Impunity

A short video documentary addressing the systematic and widespread nature of gross human rights violations taking place in Burma. The video reveals grim accounts of forced labor, gang rapes, forced relocation, and human destrutions carried out by the Burmese Army against the country’s ethnic minorities.

Made by Women’s League of Burma

DVB Documentary – Child Soldiers

A video documentary compiled by a Norway-based news station, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), on the prevalence use of child soldiers in Burma. Many rights groups have determined that the Burmese Army recruits the highest number of child soldiers in the world, with numbers reaching as high as 90,000.

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The Burmese junta sanctions rape of Chin women: Report

The Burmese Army is committing with impunity, savage and rampant sexual violence on ethnic Chin women, said Women’s League of Chinland (WLC), an umbrella ethnic Chin women’s group, in their report. The report, titled ‘Unsafe State: State-sanctioned sexual violence against Chin women in Burma’, said Burmese Army commits brutal sexual crimes against Chin women even in the presence of witnesses and sometimes torture and even murder the victims with impunity.

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Flowers from Burma Part I

This video looks at the situation of Karenni farmers along the Shan/Karenni border who have been forced to turn to the illicit growing of opium for survival, and at the role that high-level corruption and collusion by officials plays in perpetuating the drug trade.

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Flowers from Burma Part II

Trapped by poverty, farmers today find themselves battered on one side by the pressures of corrupt officials profiting from the drug trade, and on the other by government eradication programs which fail to adequately fund, train and provide access for farmers to alternative development opportunities.

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Always on run

An estimated 540,000 people were internally displaced in eastern Burma, on the run, or living in forced relocation sites. In the video three internally displaced people (IDPs) talk about their hopes and fears for themselves and their children and the impact that being forced to flee for their lives has on their ability to nurture and care for their families. A week after the footage was filmed the offensive reached this area and these IDPs were forced to flee, again.

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Season of Fear

This video shows the day-to-day struggle of over half a million displaced persons in eastern Burma and how displacement impacts communities and individuals. In September 2005, the Burmese military launched an offensive and displaced thousands of people in Nyaung Lay Bing and Toungoo Districts. Some villages were burnt down and some people had to cross border to take shelter in refugee camps.

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Voices from the Salween Valley Part I

Voices from the Salween Valley tells the story of the people living close to the area where the SPDC government, in cooperation with the Thai government, will build a dam on the Salween River. The dam will have a major impact on the lives of the people living in this area, as well as on the environment. In previous development projects, the SPDC government did not compensate villagers for their loses. Instead, villagers were often used as forced labourers or forced to relocate. As the villagers in this area wer not officially informed yet by the SPDC about the dam project, through the measurements had already started, and as they live in a ‘free fire zone’, they fear for their future.

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Voices from the Salween Valley Part II

Voices from the Salween Valley tells the story of the people living close to the area where the SPDC government, in cooperation with the Thai government, will build a dam on the Salween River. The dam will have a major impact on the lives of the people living in this area, as well as on the environment. In previous development projects, the SPDC government did not compensate villagers for their loses. Instead, villagers were often used as forced labourers or forced to relocate. As the villagers in this area wer not officially informed yet by the SPDC about the dam project, through the measurements had already started, and as they live in a ‘free fire zone’, they fear for their future.

Made by Burma Issues