Attacks on Civilians in Burma
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Uploaded by BurmaMatters on Sep 23, 2010
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Across Burma, it is estimated that between one to three million men, women and children remain internally displaced as a result of conflict, human rights abuse and a long series of other coercive measures that make it impossible for them to live a stable life in their homelands.
Hundreds of thousands of these people are victims of a brutal counter-insurgency strategy which focuses on destabilising entire communities so that they are unable to provide support to local insurgents. This is acheived by means such as routine destruction of villages, farms and food stores, ubiquitous laying of landmines and continual slave labour, on every frontier. T
Once insurgents in these areas are weak, the Burma Army will move in and force villagers into relocation sites under government control, where they are kept under tight travel restrictions and often forced to do perform labour duties without remuneration.
Meanwhile, areas that are not possible to take due to insurgent strength are kept in a state of chaos, via regular long-distance shelling of farms, villages and markets, the routine shooting villagers, and the blocking of key travel routes. People in these regions are effectively considered insurgents themselves, are not registered as citizens and are unable to access government services of any kind.
This photo essay depicts the effect that this strategy has in the latter areas. Where troops are unable to gain territory they will simply destroy settlements before moving out again to keep communities in chaos and the local people too poor, hurt and terrified to rise up against their military rulers.
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