Burma's Secret War
Broadcast in Channel 4: Monday 02 October, 2006
Journalist Evan Williams, who is banned from entering Burma, goes undercover to investigate the mass ethnic cleansing, forced labour and vicious clamping down of political opposition which characterise the dictatorship.
BBC report from Newsnight - June 2005 -
details some of the tactics the army in Burma uses against their own people. Concludes with an interview with Labour MP Vera Baird ..
Using chemical weapons against people In 2005 the Burmese army continued to use chemical weapons against it's own people - this Channel Four news piece details one incident and interviews a French doctor who examined the injured men.
The Burmese army often accuses local Mons people as rebel sympathizers, killings, rapes, forced labours, and lands confiscating by the army are widespread in the areas.
After land confiscation, the Mon farmers in the surrounding areas greatly suffered as below;
Suddenly being deprived of employment
Deterioration in social life
Population Displacement and Flux of Refugees
Migrating into Thailand
UN Envoy returns from Myanmar - Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Myanmar, retuned from his latest visit to the country on the 10th of November, 2003. He spoke with Karishma Vyas from the UN Information Services about the outcomes of his visit.
