World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

General

Apple, B. and Martin, V., No Safe Place: Burma’s Army and the Rape of Ethnic Women, Washington, DC, Refugees International, 3 April 2003.

Burma ‘Sea Gypsies’ Compendium: www.projectmaje.org

Burma Digest: A Campaign Journal for Human Rights of All Ethnic Nationalities in Burma, http://burmadigest.wordpress.com

Burma Guide to Rights and Democracy: www.burmaguide.net

Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2006, Human Rights Documentation Unit, 25 June 2007: www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs4/HRDU2006.pdf

Burma Issues and ALTSEAN-Burma, Uncounted: Political Prisoners in Burma’s Ethnic Areas, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2003, URL: www.burmaissues.org/En/reports/uncounted.pdf

Burma Issues: www.burmaissues.org

Burma Media Watch: www.bma-online.org

Burmanet news: www.burmanet.org

Democratic Voice of Burma News: http://english.dvb.no

Derechos: Human Rights in Burma: www.derechos.org

Free Burma: www.freeburma.org

ICG, Myanmar Backgrounder: Ethnic Minority Politics, Asia Report No. 52, Brussels, International Crisis Group, 7 May 2003.

ILO, Forced Labour in Myanmar (Burma), Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under Article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), Geneva, 2 July 1998.

Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition: http://www.irrawaddy.org

Matthews, B., Ethnic and Religious Diversity: Myanmar’s Unfolding Nemesis, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001.

Online Burma/Myanmar Library: www.burmalibrary.org

Project Maje: www.projectmaje.org

Rogers, B., ‘Burma: Religious Freedom Survey’ (Christian Solidarity Worldwide), Forum 18, 17 August 2004, URL: www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=396

Smith, M., Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, London, Zed Books, 1991.

Smith, M., Ethnic Groups in Burma, London, Anti-Slavery International, 1994.

South, A., ‘Karen nationalist communities: the “problem” of diversity’, Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 29, no. 1, April 2007.

South, A., Forced Migration in Myanmar: Patterns, Impacts and Responses, Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Myanmar, June 2006.

Steinberg, D., ‘Myanmar’s minority conundrum: issues of ethnicity and authority’, paper presented at Japan Institute of International Affairs ‘At the Front Lines of Conflict Prevention’ conference, 6–7 July 2001, URL: http://www.chro.org/index.php/facts_and_arguments/32

United Nations Human Rights Reports, Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Report of the UN Special Rapporteur for Myanmar, 22 January 1999, URL: www.burmafund.org

Chin

Burma Issues: Chin, www.burmaissues.org/En/chin.html

Chin Compendium: www.projectmaje.org

Chin Forum: www.chinforum.org

Chin Human Rights Organization, Religious Persecutions: A Campaign of Ethnocide against Chin Christians in Burma, 2004, URL: www.chro.org/CHRO_images/ReligiousPersecution.pdf

Chinland Guardian: www.chinlandguardian.net

Karen Human Rights Group and Open Society Institute’s Burma Project, All Quiet on the Western Front? The Situation in Chin State and Sagaing Division, January 1998, URL: www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/Western_Front.htm

Lian H. Sakhong, In Search of Chin Identity: A Study in Religion, Politics and Ethnic Identity in Burma, Copenhagen, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2003.

Women’s League of Chinland, Unsafe State: State-sanctioned Sexual violence against Chin women in Burma, March 2007, URL: www.shanwomen.org/pdf/UnsafeState.pdf

Kachin

All Kachin Student and Youth Movement: www.aksyu.com

Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Visit to Kachin State’, 2006, URL: http://www.csw.org.uk/Visits/article.php?id=16

Kachin Burma: www.monywa.org/kachin

Kachin Development Networking Group, Valley of Darkness, 2007, URL: www.aksyu.com/2007/AKSYU-Books/ValleyofDarkness.pdf

Kachin National Organization: www.kachinland.org

Kachin Net: www.kachinnet.com

Kachin News Group: www.kachinnews.com

Kachin Women’s Association, Driven Away: Trafficking of Kachin Women on the China–Burma Border, 2005, URL: www.womenofburma.org/Report/Driven_Away.pdf

Leach, E.R., Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure, Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1965.

Lintner, B., The Kachin: Lords of Burma’s Northern Frontier, Chiang Mai, Teak House, 2002.

Robinne, F., Prêtres et chamanes: Métamorphoses des Kachin de Birmanie, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007.

The Kachin Post: www.kachinpost.com

The Kachin State: www.kachinstate.com

Karen

Amnesty International, Myanmar: ‘No Place to Hide’: Killings, Abductions and Other Abuses against Ethnic Karen Villagers and Refugees, London, Amnesty International, 1995.

Bamforth, V., S. Lanjouw and G. Mortimer, Conflict and Displacement in Karenni: The Need for Considered Responses, Burma Ethnic Research Group, 2000.

Burma Issues: Karenni, www.burmaissues.org/En/karenni.html

Chapman, D., Karenni: The Forgotten War of a Nation Under Siege, Stockport, Dewi Lewis, 1998.

Christie, C., ‘The Karens: loyalism and self-determination’, in Jean Michaud (ed.), Turbulent Times and Enduring People: Mountain Minorities in the South-East Asian Massif, London, Routledge, 2000.

Huay Pu Keng: www.huaypukeng.com

Human Rights Watch, They Came and Destroyed Our Village Again: The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Karen State, June 2005, URL: http://hrw.org/reports/2005/burma0605

Karen Human Rights Group, Development by Decree: The Politics of Poverty and Control in Karen State, March 2007, URL: www.khrg.org/khrg2007/khrg0701.pdf

Karen Human Rights Group, Dignity in the Shadow of Oppression: The Abuse and Agency of Karen Women under Militarization, November 2006, URL: http://www.khrg.org/khrg2006/khrg0605.html

Karen Human Rights Group, Human Rights in Northern Karenni (Kayah) State, 1994.

Karen Human Rights Group, Setting Up the Systems of Repression: The Progressive Regimentation of Civilian Life in Dooplaya District, September 2006.

Karen Human Rights Group, Suffering in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People of Burma, 2000.

Karen: www.everyculture.com

‘Karenni’, in Indigenous Peoples of the World, vol. 4., Danbury, CT, Grolier Education, 1995.

Karenni Development Research Group, Dammed by Burma’s Generals: The Karenni Experience with Hydropower Development from Lawpita to the Salween, 2006, URL: www.salweenwatch.org/downloads/dammed-eng.pdf

Karenni Homeland: www.karennihomeland.com

Leopold, P., Karenni and the World: From Missionaries to Mail Art, ed. Ilis Day, 1996.

Rastorfer, J.-M., ‘Les Kayah, Kayan, Karenni, et Yang Daeng’, 2002, URL: www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/JMR-kayah1.htm

Rogers, B., A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People, Monarch Books, 2004.

Salween Watch: www.salweenwatch.org

Smeaton, D.M., The Loyal Karens of Burma, London, Trubner, 2003.

Smith, M., ‘Burma: the Karen conflict’, in J. Rudolph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2003.

Smith, M., Burma (Myanmar): The Time for Change, London, Minority Rights Group, 2002.

Sproat, R., ‘Language use and policy in a linguistically fragmented refugee community’, Master of Applied Linguistics in the Division of Linguistics and Psychology thesis, Macquarie University, 2004, URL: www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs3/ch0_frontstuff_5407-ocr.pdf

Mon

Burma Issues: Mon, www.burmaissues.org

Guillon, E., The Mons: A Civilization of Southeast Asia, The Siam Society, 1999.

Human Rights Foundation of Monland, No Land to Farm: A Comprehensive Report on Land, Real Estates and Properties Confiscations in Mon’s Area, Burma (1998–2002), October 2003, URL: www.rehmonnya.org/landreport.php

Independent Mon News Agency: www.monnews-imna.com

Kaowao Newsgroup: www.kaowao.org

Mon Forum: www.rehmonnya.org/monforum_main.php

Mon Information Home Page: www.albany.edu

Mon Unity League, The Mon: A People without a Country, 1997.

South, A., Mon Nationalism and Civil War in Burma: The Golden Sheldrake, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Woman and Child Rights Project (Southern Burma) and Human Rights Foundation of Monland (Burma), Catwalk to the Barracks: Conscription of Women for Sexual Slavery and Other Practices of Sexual Violence by Troops of the Burmese Military Regime in Mon Areas, July 2005, URL: www.rehmonnya.org/catwalk-to-the-barracks.php

Woman and Child Rights Project (Southern Burma), Burma’s Education in Corrupt and Oppression against Ethnic Education in Mon Territory, March 2003, URL: www.rehmonnya.org/edureport1.php

Muslims and Rohingya

Amnesty International, Myanmar, The Rohingya Minority: Fundamental Rights Denied (ASA 16/005/2004), London, May 2004, URL: www.web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA160052004?open&of=ENG-MMR

Arakan Rohingya National Organization: www.rohingya.com

Burma Issues: Rohingya, www.burmaissues.org/En/rohingya.html

Fédération internationale des droits de l’homme, Burma: Repression, discrimination and ethnic cleansing in Arakan, Paris, April 2000, URL: www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/arakbirm.pdf

Free Rohingya Campaign: http://freerohingyacampaign.blogspot.com

Human Rights Watch, ‘Crackdown on Burmese Muslims’, briefing paper, July 2002, URL: http://hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/burmese_muslims.pdf

Human Rights, Peace and Justice for All: http://hrpj.blogspot.com

Karen Human Rights Group, Easy Targets: The Persecution of Muslims in Burma, May 2002, URL: www.khrg.org/khrg2002/khrg0202.html

Lewa, C., ‘Issues to be raised concerning the situation of Rohingya children in Myanmar (Burma)’, Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, FORUM-Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2003, URL: www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.36/myanmar_ForumAsia_ngo_report.doc

Refugees International, The Rohingya: Discrimination in Burma and Denial of Rights in Bangladesh, Washington, DC, July 2006.

Rohingya Library: www.rohingya.com

Rohingya News: www.rohingya.jp/engindex.htm

Rohingya Times, The Roots, Fruits and Dreams of all the Muslims in Myanmar, Japan, 2003, URL: www.rohingya.jp/pdf/muslims.pdf

Shan

Karen Human Rights Group, Exiled at Home, Continued Forced Relocations and Displacement in Shan State, April 2000, URL: http://www.khrg.org/khrg2000/khrg0003.html

Karen Human Rights Group, Killing the Shan: The Continuing Campaign of Forced Relocation in Shan State, May 1998, URL, www.khrg.org/khrg98/khrg9803.html

Shan Herald Agency for News: www.shanland.org

Shan Human Rights Foundation and Shan Women’s Action Network, License to Rape: The Burmese Military Regime’s Use of Sexual Violence in the Ongoing War in Shan State, May 2002, URL: www.shanland.org/resources/bookspub/humanrights/LtoR/

Shan Human Rights Foundation Monthly Reports: www.shanland.org

Shan Relief and Development Committee, Deserted Fields: The Destruction of Agriculture in Mong Nai Township, Shan State, 2006, URL, www.shanland.org/articles/general/2006/Deserted_Fields.pdf

Yawnghwe, C.T., Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1987. 

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