Why We Do It
Burma is home to one of the most oppressive governments in our world today. Political repression touches everyone in the country. Severe human rights abuses – extra-judicial killings, widespread torture, forced labor, forced relocations, rape and political imprisonment – are commonplace. This brutality has forced groups of Burmese people to flee their homes and take cover in the country’s dense jungles or escape to neighboring countries. The estimated 400,000 internally displaced persons that live in forests close to the Thai-Burma border remain vulnerable to forced labor, army-imposed relocations and fighting between the Burmese military and ethnic insurgent groups. Among those suffering the most are the Karen and Shan ethnic groups who have been forced to eke out a dreary, and often dangerous existence as migrant workers. Currently, there are well over 1 million Burmese living in Thailand, most as illegal migrant workers.
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Crisis in Burma
For more information: "Burma - Country in Crisis" from the Open Society Institute's Burma Project