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Description: "The number of people from Myanmar seeking shelter in India has swelled to more than 15,000, with more likely to cross over as fighting intensifies in parts Myanmar following a coup, an Indian government official said on Tuesday. The influx into the small, northeast Indian state of Mizoram, which shares a porous, mountainous border with Myanmar, began in late February as policemen fled to avoid having to take orders from a junta trying to suppress opposition to the Feb. 1 coup. By April, about 1,800 people from Myanmar - including several lawmakers - had crossed the border but the number has recently grown to more than 15,400, according to the vice chairman of Mizoram's State Planning Board, H. Rammawi. "It is increasing day by day," Rammawi told Reuters by telephone, adding that many people from Myanmar were going to the homes of relatives making it difficult to track numbers. Communities in Mizoram and some parts of Myanmar have close ethnic ties, with extended families often strung across both sides of the border. About 6,000 of the people from Myanmar are in Mizoram's capital of Aizawl with others scattered in five districts, according to data shared by Rammawi. Rammawi said that residents and non-government organisations were taking care of the people but the state government had sought assistance from federal authorities. "Medical aid and their rations are very important," he said, adding that some people from Myanmar had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. With fighting intensifying in northwest Myanmar's Chin State, opposite Mizoram, Rammawi said he expected the numbers seeking refuge in India to increase. The Myanmar hill town of Mindat, about 100 km (60 miles) from the border, has seen some of the most intense fighting since the coup after a militia took up arms against the junta. read more Thousands have since fled from the town. "More people will be coming," Rammawi said. Several thousand villagers have fled from fighting in eastern Myanmar into Thailand since the coup..."
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Source/publisher: "Reuters" (UK)
2021-05-18
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-19
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Description: "A total of 102 illegal Myanmar migrant workers have been sent back from Thailand as the latest batch, Myanmar's immigration authorities said Wednesday. The illegal migrant workers including 10 women and two children were handed over by Thailand's Ranong Immigration Department through Kawthoung border gate in southern Tanintharyi region on Tuesday evening. They were deported by the Thai authorities for being found with expired visas and without proper documents and sent back after paying penalties under Thai law. With healthcare provided, these illegal migrant workers were being sent back to their respective homes, the immigration department said. Since January this year, a total of 931 other similar Myanmar migrant workers had been repatriated to homeland from Thailand as of Oct. 16, according to compiled statistics. Most of the migrant workers are from Tanintharyi, Yangon, Bago and Ayeyarwady regions and Mon and Rakhine states..."
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Source/publisher: "Xinhua" (China)
2019-10-23
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-24
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Description: "ကီၢ်ကၠီၣ်တဲၣ်၊ တးခ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်ကီၢ်ဆၣ်(၅)ဘ့ၣ်အပူၤ ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်သးစၢ်လၢအပၣ်ဃုာ်ဒီးကညီသးစၢ်ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်(၆)ဒူၣ်တဖၣ် ကမၤ၀ဲသးစၢ်တၢ်ထံၣ်လိာ်တဲသကိးတခါ ဖဲလါမးရှးအလၢာ်လၢ၀့ၢ်မဲၢ်ဆီး(Bodhivijjalaya)ဖၠၣ်စိမိၤကၠိအဂ့ၢ် ၦၤဘၣ်မူဘၣ်ဒါတဖၣ်တဲ၀ဲလီၤႉ မဲၢ်ဆီး၊ အူဖၣ်၊ ဖိဖရၣ်၊ မဲၢ်ရးမၣ် ဒီးထၣ်ဆီၣ်ယါကီၢ်ဆၣ်အပူၤ ကညီ၊ လါဟူၣ်၊ မၠီၣ်၊ အခၣ်၊ လံၤဆူ၊ (Mien) ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်သးစၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်ဒ်သိးမၤ၀ဲတၢ်ထံၣ်လိာ်တဲသကိးကန့ၢ်အဂီၢ် ဖဲလါယနူၤအါရံၤ၂၄သီအနံၤ မၤ၀ဲတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဒီးဆၢတဲာ်လီၤ၀ဲအဂ့ၢ်ကညီသးစၢ်ခိၣ်နၢ်လၢ(Youth People For Development-YPD)စီၤကွံကွံၣ်တဲ၀ဲဒ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
Creator/author: KIC
Source/publisher: KIC (Karen Information Center)
2019-01-27
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-18
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Language: Sgaw Karen
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Description: "...This paper examines the value and limitations of HLP restitution in contexts of customary land tenure and legal pluralism and examines the role that customary justice can play as part of a transitional justice process. It argues that actors involved with restitution and broader efforts to reinstate justice, the rule of law, and democracy in post-conflict and transitional contexts should engage, albeit under certain conditions, with nonstate justice mechanisms. For the overwhelming majority of populations in developing countries, which is where most internally displaced persons (IDPs) live, customary justice is the only accessible form of justice. Engagement with it is essential to improving access to justice and to reforming or influencing its rules and processes in accordance with the human rights and democratic principles promoted by transitional justice..."
Creator/author: Barbara McCallin
Source/publisher: Brookings Institution
2012-08-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-07-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Global forced displacement has seen accelerated growth in 2014, once again reaching unprecedented levels. The year saw the highest displacement on record. By end-2014, 59.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations. This is 8.3 million persons more than the year before (51.2 million) and the highest annual increase in a single year."
Source/publisher: UNHCR
2014-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-07-11
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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