IDPs in Burma: A short summary

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"Burma has a population of 50 million people, recent estimates place 2 million of those people as Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). They live precarious and transient lives in the jungles of Burma?s ethnic border areas and in the more urban central plains. They are denied the stability of having a home and a livelihood and are forced into a constant state of movement: never having the opportunity to maintain a home, their farms, access to education and medical facilities and peace of mind..."

Source/publisher: 

Burma Issues (Peaceway Foundation)

Date of Publication: 

2003-04-00

Date of entry: 

2010-12-06

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  • Individual Documents

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Language: 

English

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