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Our most recent newsletter covered from July - August 2012
Articles include -
- The Repatriation Issue
- Looking Forward To "Living In My Village Without Any Fear"
- "Not Ready To Return"
- "If They Have No Plan For This, Many Will Die Of Starvation"
- "I Dare Not To Go Back Home As Long As The Burmese Army Still Fortifies"
- "Perhaps I Will Run Away"
- "Just Words, No Action Makes Us Distrustful"
- Karen Women Organization's Opinion
By Eh Klo DahMany multi-ethnic Burmese migrants come to Mae Tao Clinic (MTC) in Thailand to seek treatment for their health problems. About 50% of those who come to MTC for medical attention are migrant workers in the Mae Sot area; the other 50% travel across the border from Burma for care. They come to different departments with different diseases and often for unhappy reasons, but occasionally joyous ones as well. By Saw DavidAt first sight it's difficult to believe that anyone can live and work here. The lunar landscape of rubbish in varying states of decay does not seem like a wise place to inhabit, let alone raise a family in. By Saw DavidThere are positive changes in Burma and donors should focus on engagement with the reformist president Thein Sein. Well, that seems to be the official line being pushed by those who want to see cuts in funding to organisations based on the Thai-Burmese border in favour of channeling money through the government for work inside Burma. This is despite the humanitarian catastrophe in Kachin State caused by the government's offensive and on-going human rights abuses in ethnic areas such as Karenni and Karen states. |
Call for Action & Support
The people of Burma are not the silent victims of the civil war in their country. They are organizing themselves to struggle in countrywide grassroots movements for true and lasting PEACE and JUSTICE in Burma. They need and want your help. DON'T LET THE OPPRESSION OF THE BURMESE PEOPLE CONTINUE BECAUSE OF YOUR SILENCE!JOIN THEM IN SOLIDARITY BY ADDING YOUR VOICE TO THEIR CALLS FOR ACTION AND SUPPORT FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN BURMA!
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Burma Issues is a non-profit organization of young ethnic people from Burma, dedicated to the empowerment and education of the grassroots ethnic people in Burma; the documentation and reporting of the important social, economic, and political aspects of their lives; and, through strong advocacy, the building of growing and sustainable support from the international community to their aspirations for lasting peace and justice.
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"If we do a crime, we should receive some fair punishment. But not be forced or tricked to be a military porter. Convicts are human beings too. Is it fair for someone like me, who was being punished for having only a little marijuana, to carry heavy loads into the battlefield, do minesweeping, be beaten, and be shot? I don’t think so." said Tin Hlaing, an escaped porter from the Burmese Military. |
