MAE SOT... FRONTERA CON MYANMAR

Estamos en Mae Sot, a 6 km de la frontera de Myanmar (Burma), donde esta una de las guerras (guerra civil) mas larga y olvidada del mundo... casi 60 agnos llevan peleandose. Mae Sot, en el pueblo donde estamos en un microcosmos extragno.... Se puede ver varias etnias, thais, birmanos, indios, musulmanes, algunas tribus, algunos occidentales de voluntariado, ya que es una zona con campos de refugiados, ya que a gran parte de la poblacion burmesa no le queda otra que huir a thailandia, la mayoria de las veces huyendo de la represion del ejercito gubernamental de Burma que ataca y ejecuta a su antojo. Otras veces por el conflicto en si... no les queda mas remedio que huir hacia la frontera con Tailandia. Y en esta ciudad fronteriza se ve gran parte del conflicto... Aunque ahora parece calmado hace pocos agnos ha sido muy grave.

El conflicto enfrenta al gobierno de Myanmar con las regiones de las etnias Karen y Shan... per bueno para quien este interesado en el tema...

http://www.burmaborderprojects.org/index.html
http://www2.soros.org/burma/CRISIS/index.html
http://burma.indymedia.org/en/

Reports by the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other groups have repeatedly detailed a gruesome litany of abuses.

The 2000 United Nations Human Rights Resoulution on Myanmar

"Deplores: (a) The continuing pattern of gross and systematic violations of human rights in Myanmar; including extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, particularly in areas of ethnic tension, and enforced disappearances, torture, harsh prison conditions, abuse of women and children by government agents, arbitrary seizures of land and property, and the imposition of oppressive measures directed in particular at ethnic and religious minorities...destruction of crops and the continuing violations of the human rights of women, in particular forced labour; [clearing mine fields] as porters for the army; trafficking, sexual violence and exploitation, often committed by military personnel, and especially directed towards women who are returning refugees,...The continuing violations of the rights of children, in particular through forced labour programmes, through their sexual exploitation... [violations] against children belonging to ethnic and religious minority groups and elevated rates of infant and maternal mortality and malnutrition; [all of which results] in the large-scale displacement of persons and flows of refugees to neighbouring countries, thus creating problems for the countries concerned, and particularly the condition of statelessness... "