Burma's Karen people are seen as being particularly at risk
Posted on 06/23/2005 9:24:03 AM PDT by LwinAungSoe
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Burma's Karen people are seen as being particularly at risk
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UK members of parliament and human rights groups are meeting to publicise the dossier compiled over five years by human rights researcher Guy Horton.
He made secret trips into the jungle to collect video and other evidence of attacks on ethnic minorities.
Burma's embassy in London has so far declined to comment on his findings.
The 600-page report, which was partly funded by the Dutch government, is based on interviews and documents compiled during numerous undercover trips to central Burma.
It also cites Burmese military communications intercepted by Thai intelligence officers.
The report accuses the Burmese army of destroying villages in the east of the country and forcing survivors into labour camps.
'Little girls raped'
Government soldiers are said to routinely use torture as a weapon, along with the rape of girls as young as five.
Mr Horton told the BBC he had video of "villages in the process of being burnt down", the mass slaughter of animals and "numerous" people being murdered.
"It shows one particular massacre of 10 people," he added.
During one four-week visit, almost every village he saw had been burned to the ground.
Villagers told him of soldiers throwing babies onto a fire during one raid.
Mr Horton claims his findings amount to genocide and he is calling on the international community to step up sanctions against Burma.
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Burma/Myanmar's army is what it is and does what it does and until its fellow-drug-profiteering ASEAN-neighbor henchmen from Tanglin and Holland Road and Chiang's "vip" terminals and Krung Thep, Chiang Mai, Fang, Vientianne, Phnom Phen and all the way to The Burmese goons' Yangon/Rangoon's Strand and Inya Lake hotels quit legitimizing it by profiting from it, will continue to dictate, dominate and destroy and do mayhem, murder and maim.
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May God help the Karen.
<< The Karen are among the bravest and most generous people that one can know. May God protect them. >>
All of your observations are accurate.
I have been many times into around and, thank God, out of Burma/Myanmar, not infrequently in the company if not always in the employ of Ambassadors, Deputy Chiefs of Mission and every other kind of State Department and Foreign[er] Service-[ing] enemy of everything [Including our own Nation!] civilized, decent, honest and wholesome on God's Good Green Earth. And often with the assistance and/or in the company, also, of many dole-recipients of the alphabet agencies: INM/INLA, CIA, DEA, FBI, NAU et al -- and have seen them all, every last man-jack and girly-boy among them, care for nothing that is civilized, decent, honest and wholesome -- and only for maximizing the grandiosity with which he parades and struts his stuff and for by any means available enhancing the archaic plenipotentiary-like manner in which he so parasitically lives.
And have in Burma as elsewhere around the Earth observed in every one of them that when the preservation of his own self image and grandiose life style requires of him that he subordinate the interests of all but the savage monster murderers to whom he so willingly kowtows?
Then so be it!
Theirs is the untimate corruption. The parasite's corruption of grovelling bloody ineptitude!
The man who uncovered the truth about Burma
By Peter Popham
See http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=649220
Most people think the atrocities in Burma should not be called genocide. Guy Horton is on a quest to prove them wrong.
GUY HORTON HAS SEEN PEOPLE DOING FORCED LABOR in Burma's jungle, smelled the rotting corpses of villagers killed by bayonets, and heard the cries of a small child being tossed by government troops into a burning hut. But it was something seemingly trivial that convinced the 53-year-old British human rights researcher that he was witnessing genocide.>>> read more
Most people think the atrocities in Burma should not be called genocide. Guy Horton is on a quest to prove them wrong.
GUY HORTON HAS SEEN PEOPLE DOING FORCED LABOR in Burma's jungle, smelled the rotting corpses of villagers killed by bayonets, and heard the cries of a small child being tossed by government troops into a burning hut. But it was something seemingly trivial that convinced the 53-year-old British human rights researcher that he was witnessing genocide.>>> read more
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