Description:
"...This report documents the continued systematic violation of internationally recognized human rights committed by the Burmese army in 1993-1994 against one of Burma's main ethnic minorities, the Mon. It also catalogues the treatment of the Mon by Thai authorities, which falls far short of international standards relating to the status of refugees and fundamental human rights principles.
Throughout 1994, thousands of Mon continued to stream into Thailand, where a small proportion were able to take refuge in camps in Thailand established in 1990, but most became illegal workers. In Thailand, however, they found a government whose foreign policy, like so many others in the region, was driven by "commercial diplomacy." Thailand was as determined to send the Mon back as it was to strengthen economic relations with the SLORC...."
Human Rights Violations of the Mon by the Burmese Government :
Arrests and Extrajudicial Executions of Suspected Rebels;
Abuses Associated With Taxation;
Forced Relocations;
Forced Labor.
Abuses of the Mon by the Thai Government:
The Attack on Halockhani Camp and the Thai Response;
The Treatment of Mon Migrant Workers by Thai Authorities;
Thai Policy Towards Mon and Other Burmese Refugees.
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch/Asia
Date of Publication:
1994-12-00
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 Mon
- HURFOM and other human rights material about the Mon
Language:
English
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Format:
htm
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