Description:
Interviews with Refugees from Burma on Guam, including recent interviews with Chin and Kachin refugees.
"During the past year, nearly a thousand refugees from Burma have arrived on the island of Guam,
a United States territory in the Pacific Ocean. They are seeking asylum in the US, having fled
extraordinary levels of persecution in their homeland. Most are from northern Burma, especially
the Chin State...
This report consists of interviews with a small cross section of the Guam asylum seekers. It is to
some extent representative of their demographics, in terms of ethnicity and gender. The
interviewees have given us a great bounty of significant new information and details about recent
conditions in Burma...
Numerous topics are covered in these 17 interviews. There is front-line information about the
AIDS epidemic which is making its grim progress into the remote mountains of Burma, and the
efforts to evade the regime?s denial about it..."
Source/publisher:
Project Maje
Date of Publication:
2001-03-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
- Human Rights
- Discrimination
- Race or Ethnicity: Discrimination based on
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations
- Racial or ethnic discrimination in Burma: reports of violations against specific groups
- Discrimination against the Chin (Zo)
- Discrimination against the Chin (Zo) -- websites and reports
Language:
English