Recommended readings

Statement on the treatment of the Rohingya and Bangladeshi “boat people” in Asia, 7 February 2009

[HK] Activists to campaign for freer Myanmar

The UN and Burma by Salai Laini, Chinland Guardian

Report on CSW UK’s visit to the Thailand-Burma border and Malaysia, February 2008. Executive Summary and Report.

Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. August to October 2007. Summary.

Unsafe state: State-sanctioned sexual violence against Chin women in Burma, 01/03/2007. By the Women’s League of Chinland. Executive Summary and Report.

Carrying the Cross by CSW UK

Burmese Chin Refugees in Malaysia, March 2006 Fact-Finding Report of CSW HK Download Report

A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People, by Benedict Rogers - This compassionate but unflinching account is an important step to galvanising Western opinion about this ongoing act of genocide. Available at Christian Literature Crusade, www.hkstar.com.

Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma. Report Commissioned By: The Honorable Vacláv Havel, Former President of the Czech Republic ishop Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town obel Peace Prize Laureate (1984). Prepared By: DLA Piper Rudney Gray Cray. September 20, 2005.

Various reports by Christian Solidarity Worldwide UK

Country profiles:

• World Factbook
• BBC

Video clips

• Season of Fear - Internally displaced people in Burma call for international action (by WITNESS)
  
• No place to go - Internally displaced people in Burma (by WITNESS)
• Shoot on sight - The ongoing military junta offensive against civilians in Eastern Burma (by WITNESS)