Other Reports
28
November 2011
The
report, published by aid group Partners Relief
and Development, documents serious international
crimes committed by Tatmadaw soldiers in October
in Nam Lim Pa Village, Mansi Township, Kachin
State. Crimes include extrajudicial killings,
torture, attacks against civilians, arbitrary
arrest, forced labor, and forced displacement.
The report calls on the international community
to support a UN-mandated Commission of Inquiry
into international crimes in Burma, including
crimes against humanity and war crimes. |
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13
July 2011
The
joint Human Rights Watch and Karen Human Rights
Group report is based on interviews conducted
with convict porters. It details the Tatmadaw’s
forcible recruitment and mistreatment of prisoners
used as porters in conflict areas in Karen State
and Eastern Pegu Division. The report documents
serious and systematic abuses committed by Tatmadaw
soldiers. These include summary executions,
torture, beatings, the use of porters as human
shields, and denial of medical attention, food
or shelter. It concludes with a call for the
establishment of a UN-mandated Commission of
Inquiry to investigate allegations of war crimes
in order to hold perpetrators to account and
bring justice to the victims.
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19
January 2011
Prepared
by the Physicians for Human Rights, the report
is an independent assessment of the health and
human rights situation in Burma’s Chin
State. It shows that many of the documented
human rights violations in Chin State, such
as forced labor, forced conscription, torture,
intimidation, rape, killings, disappearances,
and ethnic and religious persecution, meet the
criteria to be considered as crimes against
humanity. The report concludes that the United
Nations should establish a Commission of Inquiry
into crimes against humanity in Chin State. |
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17
June 2010
Prepared
by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, this report
examines the situation of Rohingya in Burma’s
Northern Arakan State in the context of crimes
against humanity. The report details the widespread
and systematic abuses by the SPDC against Rohingya,
including forced labor, forced displacement,
rape, and sexual violence. It concludes that
the UN Security Council should establish a Commission
of Inquiry to investigate and collect further
evidence on the perpetration of those crimes
against humanity in North Arakan State. |
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Prepared
by the International Federation of Human Rights
(FIDH), the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma
(Altsean-Burma), and the Burma Lawyers’
Council (BLC), this report presents an overview
of the crimes committed by the SPDC throughout
Burma. The report calls for the establishment
of a Commission of Inquiry mandated by the
UN Security Council to investigate allegations
of crimes against humanity and war crimes
committed by the SPDC.
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27
February 2009
A
joint effort from the Emergency Assistance Team
and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, this report was an independent assessment
of the post-Nargis humanitarian response. The
report outlined the SPDC’s systematic
obstruction and misappropriation of aid, forced
relocation of survivors, and use of forced labor
in the cyclone-affected areas. It concluded
that these systematic abuses may amount to crimes
against humanity and that the UN Security Council
should refer the SPDC to the International Criminal
Court. |
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22
October 2008
This
report from the Thai Burma Border Consortium
argues that the SPDC’s actions in Eastern
Burma – forced labor, extortion and land
confiscation as well as military campaigns that
have displaced over 500,000 people - constitute
crimes against humanity. The report concludes
by arguing that the international community
must move forward in holding the SPDC accountable
for its crimes or the climate of impunity will
persist.
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5
June 2008
Amnesty
International’s report assesses the SPDC’s
military offensives against ethnic Karen civilians
in Easter Burma from 2005 to 2008, and reports
that these campaigns have led to widespread
and systematic violations of international human
rights and humanitarian law. The report finds
that these violations constitute crimes against
humanity according to Article 7 of the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Therefore, the UN Security Council should impose
a comprehensive mandatory arms embargo on the
SPDC and UN member states should exercise universal
jurisdiction over persons suspected of involvement
in crimes against humanity in Burma.
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