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“Untold Miseries”
Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma’s Kachin State
Map of Burma
Detailed Map
of Kachin State
Summary
Key
Recommendations
The Burmese
Government Should:
The United
Nations, ASEAN, ASEAN Member States, Australia, China, Russia, the United
States, the European Union, Japan Should:
Methodology
I. Armed
Conflict in Kachin State
Brief
Political History of the Kachin
Armed
Conflict and Abuse in Kachin State: 1961-1994
Human Rights
Abuses Pre-1994
Events
Preceding Renewed Armed Conflict in 2011
Renewed
Armed Conflict in Kachin State: June 2011-Present
Major
Infrastructure Projects in Northern Burma
Taping
Hydropower Dam No. 1
Myitsone
Hydropower Dam
The
Burma-China Oil and Gas Pipelines
II. Burmese
Army Abuses in Kachin State
Torture and
Forced Labor of Children
Attacks on
Civilians and Civilian Objects
Torture,
Beatings, and Other Ill-Treatment
Rape and
Sexual Violence
Forced Labor
Extrajudicial
Killings
Destruction
of Property
Child
Soldiers
Antipersonnel
Landmines
III. Abuses
by the Kachin Independence Army
Child
Soldiers
Landmines
IV.
Protecting Internally Displaced Kachin in Burma
Plight of
Displaced Persons
Food
Security
Humanitarian
Access
V.
International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
VI. Recommendations
To the
Burmese Government
To the
Burmese Parliament
To the
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Burma
To the
National Human Rights Commission
To the
Kachin Independence Organization
To
International Humanitarian Agencies and the Donor Community
To the UN
Country Team and Burma-based UN Agencies
To the
International Labour Organization
To the
Governments of Australia, China, Russia, United States, European Union,
and Japan, and ASEAN Member States
Acknowledgements
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