Changing flight patterns

Article Abstract:

Burmese from deep inside Burma have joined the flux of refugees to refugee camps in Thailand. The Burmese government and military are allegedly subjecting single males to conscripted labor if they cannot pay exorbitant fines, and have apparently destroyed entire villages in southeastern areas to bring their populations closer to forced labor areas. Muslims tell of discrimination as they pay more for ration cards, undergo forced labor, and are threatened with demolition of their mosques. The resulting increase in the influx of refugees is beginning to annoy the Thai authorities.

Statistics, Refugees, Burmese, Burmese refugees

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Flanking movement

Article Abstract:

The cabinet expansion in Myanmar served to end the power struggle within the army and strengthened intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Khin Nyunt's control over the military as four regional commanders who were known to oppose him were recalled from their posts and given largely decorative positions in the cabinet. The four wanted one of them to replace Gen. Than Shwe as army commander-in-chief to counter Nyunt's influence and the resulting cabinet appointments were made to stop the crisis.

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Name dropping

Article Abstract:

Members of the Wa tribe in Burma may once again take up arms against the ruling junta there. They complain that promises made to them when they ceased attacking government forces in 1989 have not been kept, and that proposed changes to the names of the country's provinces are insulting. The Was have severed ties and cut support to other rebel groups, but renewed conflict could see those link reemerge.

Indigenous peoples

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