Uncounted: Political Prisoners in Burma's Ethnic Areas
Burma Issues and ALTSEAN-Burma
Burma's military regime is guilty of more than forty years of oppressive and abusive actions in the ethnic areas of Burma. These areas are administered under military rule due to perceived subversive elements that exist there, namely armed opposition groups. These areas consist of hundreds of ethnic nationality groups that make up minority percentages of Burma's population. These are groups that have, particularly over the past forty years, struggled to maintain their identities and cultures while living under a brutal regime.The people living in these conflict zones are subjected to both offensive and defensive assualts from the Burmese military. The often remote nature of these areas and the lack of both attention by the international community and access for independent monitors, has allowed the military to defy international and domestic laws in their attempts to eradicate this resistance.
This report presents cases of ethnic villagers who were detained on accusations of supporting ethnic nationality opposition groups. It focuses on three interlocking themes:
- The motivation behind the detention of people accused of supporting ethnic nationality opposition groups;
- The treatment of these people while detained;
- and whether there was a legal basis for these detentions
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