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I hope all of our mapping efforts will allow more people to recognize the violations that are going on in Burma. These violations that we are mapping have been so atrocious. It is hard to imagine because of the place we live in that these types of things are still occurring I think this is [...]
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Since getting over my mapping issues in Burma, I have been able to read more about the human rights violations there. I am still have trouble with specifics of the violations because often times a location and/or a date are left out. The first violation I mapped this one was a case of serious torture [...]
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For the first part of the Burma project, I choose the article, We Are Forgotten People. The first three incidents I mapped were violations by the Tatmadaw, which is the Burmese Army. The first incident really struck home because it was a student that was leaving his township and headed to Kalaymyo University when the [...]
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Before starting this project, I had never heard of Burma. It was even more shocking to read about the human rights violations occurring in the developing country. Forced labor, human trafficking and forced portering are some of the incidents we came across as a class and I was glad to help find these incidents, but [...]
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“Forced labor is arguably the most pervasive human rights abuse in Burma today.” In 1999, the efforts of the International Labour Organization (ILO) had finally paid off. The SPDC had officially banned the practice of forced labour, however, the use of forced labour continues on many levels. The minority villagers were highly targetted, specifically by [...]
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After finishing up my research with the Burma project, I’ve come to realize how important it is to have people who are passionate about this mission to map these incidences in order to help. I think this project can really help the human rights situations in Burma because although the information is already available, we [...]
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I’ve been doing more research, looking up incidences in the 2007 Burma Human Rights Yearbook. It was a little confusing when I started doing this project because I wasn’t exactly sure how the process worked. Once I found a good resource for reported human rights violations, I was able to find a lot of information, [...]
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Chapter 4 in the Burma Library Human Rights yearbook talk about the incidents dealing with landmines and other explosive devices. In 2008, 12 landmine realted deaths were reported along with 46 non-death injuries. There were 28 deaths and 64 injuries reported from explosive devices. It is believed that the numbers are much higher, ut have [...]
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I am still looking at the Burma Library page from 2008. This time around I am focusing on reported incidents on trafficking and smuggling. There are many different types of smuggling that goes on and a lot of it goes undetected because of the pervasive laws that aren’t strict enough. According to the handbook, “live animals, [...]
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The other day, I was watching HBO and a documentary was playing entitled “Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country”. I started to watch it, and it made me realize even more that what we were doing with the Handheld Human Rights Project for class might be something small, but is very important at the [...]
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