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“I Want to Help My Own People”
State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis
Maps
Summary
Key
Recommendations
Methodology
I. Cyclone
Nargis
The Storm
Strikes
Insufficient
Government Warnings
Government
Obstruction to International Relief Operations
Restrictions
on Access and Movement in Cyclone-Affected Areas
Restrictions
on Domestic and Foreign Media
Diversions
of Relief Aid
Displaced
Persons and Forced Returns
II. Breaking
the Deadlock: ASEAN's Intervention and the Opening of Humanitarian Space
Responsibility
to Protect
Tripartite
Core Group
III. Local
Heroes: The Spontaneous Response of Burmese Society
Civil
Society in Burma
Spontaneous
Civil Society Responses to Cyclone Nargis
Targeting of
Political Activists and Journalists
The
Government’s Preferred Partners–Enter the GONGOs
The Cyclone
Nargis Response Two Years Later
IV. The
Constitutional Referendum..
The
“Road Map to Democracy” and the 2008 Constitution
Voting in
the Aftermath of Disaster
V. Continued
Repression in Cyclone-Affected Areas
Forced Labor
Preparation
for the 2010 Elections
VI.
Continuing Obstacles to Reconstruction in Cyclone-Affected Areas
Favoritism
for Reconstruction Contracts
The Gradual
Expansion of Civil Society
VII.
Continued Constraints on Humanitarian Access outside the Cyclone-Affected Areas
Burma’s
Humanitarian Crisis
Lack of
Protection for Communities in Conflict Zones
Humanitarian
Access Elsewhere in Burma
Recommendations
To the State
Peace and Development Council (SPDC)
To United
Nations Agencies
To
International Donors
To the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
To China
Acronyms and
Burmese Terms
Acknowledgements
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