Other resources

Burmese newspapers

The Irrawaddy is published by the Irrawaddy Publishing Group (IPG). IPG was established in 1992 by Burmese citizens living in exile and is not affiliated with any political party or organisation. The Irrawaddy seeks to promote press freedom and access to unbiased information.

The New Light of Myanmar is the English language daily newspaper. Its domestic news reinforces government policy, it highlights the 'national objectives' of government and its content is strictly monitored. Editors, reporters, and their families remain answerable to the military authorities.

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Other electronic resources

Amnesty International

Myanmar: Lack of Security in Counter-Insurgency Areas, AI 16/007/2002 (July 2002) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA160072002?open&of=ENG-MMR; Myanmar: Torture of Ethnic Minority Women, AI 16/017/2001 (July 2001) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA160172001?open&of=ENG-MMR

Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre http://www.ahrchk.net

Burma Campaign UK http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/

Burma Centrum Nederland http://www.xs4all.nl/~bcn/

Burma Fund http://www.burmafund.org

Chin Human Rights Organisation http://www.chro.org

Cultural Survival Quarterly, Burma edition, Autumn 2000 http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/index.cfm?id=24.3

Free Burma Coalition http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/

Human Rights Watch

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Thai Policy toward Burmese Refugees, Vol. 16, no. 2, February 2004. http://hrw.org/reports/2004/thailand0204/thailand0204.pdf

Karen Human Rights Group http://www.khrg.org

National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) http://www.ncgub.net

National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Human Rights Documentation Unit, Human Rights Yearbook 2000: Burma (Myanmar) http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/yearbooks/Main.htm

Online Burma Library http://www.burmalibrary.org

UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/a/mmya.htm

US State Department reports http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/burma/

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Non-electronic resources and bibliography

• Allott, A. J., Inked Over, Ripped Out: Burmese Storytellers and the Censors. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1994.

• All Burma Students' Democratic Front, Tortured Voices: Personal Accounts of Burma's Interrogation Centres. Bangkok, July 1998.

• Amnesty International, Thousands of Refugees from Myanmar. AI Index: ASA 02/03/97, March 1997.

• Anderson, B., Imagined Communities. London and New York: Verso, 1991.

• Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.

• Ball, D., Burma's Military Secrets: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) from 1941 to Cyber Warfare. Thailand: White Lotus Press, 1998.

• Belak, B., Gathering Strength: Women from Burma on their Rights. Chiang Mai: Images Asia, 2002.

• Burma Action Group, Burma: The Alternative Guide. London, March 1996.

• Burma Center Netherlands (BCN) and Transnational Institute (TNI), Strengthening Civil Society in Burma: Possibilities and Dilemmas for International NGOs. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999.

• Burma Lawyers' Council, Burma: The Military and its Constitution. Bangkok, May 1999.

• Clements, A. and Kean, L., Burma's Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity. Thailand: White Orchid Press, 1995.

• Cohen, R. and Deng, F., The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998a.

• --, Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998b.

• Earthrights International, School for Rape: The Burmese Military & Sexual Violence. United States and Thailand, February 1998.

• Fink, C., Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule. London: Zed Books, 2001.

• Gilhodes, A., The Kachins: Religion and Customs. Thailand: White Lotus Press, 1996.

• Harris, P., 'Myanmar', in Janie Hampton (ed.), Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey. London: Earthscan Publications, 1998.

• Harvey, G. E., British Rule in Burma: 1824-1942. London: Faber & Faber, 1946.

• Human Rights Documentation Unit, Human Rights Yearbook 1997-98, Burma. Bangkok: National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), July 1998.

• Human Rights Watch, Burma/Thailand: No Safety in Burma, No Sanctuary in Thailand. Human Rights Watch (Asia), Vol. 9, No. 6, July 1997.

• Images Asia, Migrating With Hope. Chiang Mai, 1997.

• Images Asia and BurmaNet, Nowhere To Go: A Report on the 1997 SLORC Offensive Against Duplaya District (KNU Sixth Brigade), Karen State, Burma. Chiang Mai, April 1997.

• Images Asia et al., All Quiet on the Western Front? The Situation in Chin State and Sagaing Division, Burma. Chiang Mai, January 1998.

• Images Asia and Borderline Video, A Question of Security: A Retrospective on Cross-border Attacks on Thailand's Refugee and Civilian Communities along the Burmese Border Since 1995. Chiang Mai, May 1998.

• International Labour Organization (ILO), Forced labour in Myanmar (Burma): Report of the Commission of Inquiry. Geneva, July 1998.

• Karen Human Rights Group, Flight, Hunger and Survival: Repression and Displacement in the Villages of Papun and Nyaunglebin Districts. October 2001.

• --, A Strategy of Subjugation: The Situation in Ler Mu Lah Township, Tenasserim Division. December 2001.

• --, Easy Targets: The Persecution of Muslims in Burma. May 2002.

• Lahu National Development Organisation, Unsettling Moves: The Wa forced resettlement program in Eastern Shan State. 2002.

• Lintner, B., Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy. London and Bangkok: White Lotus, 1990.

• --, Land of Jade: a Journey Through Insurgent Burma. Edinburgh: Kiscadale Publications, 1990.

• --, Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford and Bangkok: Westview Press and White Lotus, 1994.

• Marshall, H. I., The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropoligy and Ethnology. Thailand: White Lotus Press, 1997.

• Mon Information Service et al., Abuses Against Peasant Farmers in Burma: Emphasis on Mon State, Karen State and Tenasserim Division. Bangkok, July 1998.

• Rodrigue, Y., Nat-Pwe: Burma's Supernatural Sub-Culture. Gartmore, Scotland: Kiscadale Ltd, 1992.

• Selth, A., Burma's Armed Forces: Power Without Glory. New York: Eastbridge, 2002.

• Shan Human Rights Foundation, Uprooting the Shan: SLORC's Forced Relocation Program in Central Shan State. Chiang Mai, December 1996.

• --, Dispossessed: Forced Relocation and Extrajudicial Killings in Shan State, Chiang Mai, April 1998.

• Smith, M., Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights. London: Anti-Slavery International, 1994.

• --, Burma: Beyond the Law. London: Article 19, 1996.

• --, Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London: Zed Books, 1991 and 1999.

• UNHCR, The State of the World's Refugees: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

• USCR, World Refugee Survey 1999. Washington, DC: USCR, 1999.

• --, World Refugee Survey 2000. Washington, DC: USCR, 2000.

• --, World Refugee Survey 2001. Washington, DC: USCR, 2001.

• --, World Refugee Survey 2002. Washington, DC: USCR, 2002.

• Winichakul, T., Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1994.

• Win Naing Oo, Cries from Insein: A Report on conditions for Political Prisoners in Burma's Infamous Insein Prison. Bangkok: All Burma Students' Democratic Front, 1996.

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