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Forgotten Victims of a Hidden War: Internally Displaced Karen in Burma

Forgotten Victims of a Hidden War: Internally Displaced Karen in Burma

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Date of publication
March 1998
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
OBL:48928

1. The Karen and Kawthoolei: The Karen; Kawthoolei; The Kawthoolei districts ||
2. Displacement and counter-insurgency in Burma:
Population displacement in Burma;
Protracted ethnic conflict in Burma;
Counter-insurgency: the four-cuts ||
3. The war in Kawthoolei:
Seasonal offensives: the moving front line and refugee flows, 1974-92;
Cease-fires (1992-94) and the renewal of offensives (1995-97) ||
4. Internal displacement in Kawthoolei:
Counter-insurgency and displacement in Kawthoolei;
Displacement in Kawthoolei;
The situation of IDPs in Kawthoolei districts;
Extent of population displacement in Kawthoolei;
Patterns of displacement;
Factors preventing the IDPs returning home;
Factors preventing the IDPs becoming refugees in Thailand;
Vulnerability of IDPs;
Note on forced relocations sites ||

5.Assistance:
International responses to IDPs;
International responses to IDPs in Burma;
Responses inside Burma;
The response from the border area to Karen IDPs ||
6.Protection:
Refugees on the Thai-Burma border: international assistance with limited protection;
The case of the repatriation of the Mon;
The Karen: the problem of security;
Assistance and protection: refugees and IDPs;
The need for leverage;
Transition from armed conflict ||

Appendix III: Interview at Mae La

(This version lacks the maps and tables)

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Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Brother Amoz
Steven Lanjouw
Saw Pay Leek
Dr. Em Marta
Graham Mortimer
Alan Smith
Saw David Taw
Pah Hsaw Thut
Saw Aung Win
Saw Kwe Htoo Win

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