Asia Times: Rangers to the rescue in Myanmar, Tony Cliff, 18 February 2011 Article highlights some of the work of the group Free Burma Rangers. Article notes that the teams document human rights abuses, including the forced labor in mined Read more…
Bangkok Post, You’re now on the dead list, Spectrum Section, 13 February 2011. In depth story of a person taken from prison and forced to porter for the military in areas dangerous due to antipersonnel mines. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/221288/you-re-now-on-the-dead-list
Democratic Voice of Burma report:‘Truckloads’ of prisoners leave Insein by Khin Hnin Htet, 11 February 2011 Excerpt from the article reads: The Burmese army is known to have used civilians as minesweepers, forcing them to walk in front of patrols Read more…
New Light of Myanmar: KNU’s landmine left one civilian injured 02 Feb 2011 Villager hunting in the forest in Mawtaung injured by an antipersonnel mine. Source: Myanmar News Agency, reprinted on ReliefWeb at: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MMAH-8DQ96E?OpenDocument
Bangkok Post, Spectrum section: Explosive Nightmares, 30 January 2011 Article documents the plight of a farmed who stepped on a landmine in Burma but was being treated in Mae Sot hospital and a staff member of the Committee for Internally Read more…
???FBR REPORT: Landmines, Victims and Flooding from Burma Army Dam Project Displaces Multiple Communities Nyaunglebin District, Karen State, Burma 17 January, 2011 Free Burma Rangers (FBR) report that on Christmas day December, 2010, in Mone Township of eastern Bago Division Read more…