Appendix 7: Bibliography

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Materials Cited in Tribunal Briefing Documents

"All preparations under way for purchase, storage and milling of paddy," New Light of Myanmar, 14 October 1998.

"Ayeyawady Division to put over 3.2m acres under monsoon paddy," New Light of Myanmar, 11 September 1998.

"Bitter Harvest for Slorc's rice policy," The Nation, 14 February 1997.

"Blind Total associates with thick heads," Kwe Ka Lu, 20 September 1998. (Karen text)

"Burma bids to help its neighbors," The Nation, 20 October 1998.

"Commerce Minister explains new paddy purchasing system," New Light of Myanmar, 25 November 1997.

"GEB loans in Yangon exceed K 1.2b," New Light of Myanmar, 18 April 1996.

"Hey you, they can't run," Kwe Ka Lu, 20 September 1998. (Karen text)

"Hundreds starving after fleeing Burma," Bangkok Post, 26 February 1998.

"Inbalance of income and spending will downgrade quality of transport- services, cause inconvenience," New Light of Myanmar, 8 September 1998.

"Minister explains paddy purchasing system for 1997-98," New Light of Myanmar, 30 November 1997.

"Minister for A&I inspects Ngamoeyeik Dam, paddy fields in Bago Division," New Light of Myanmar, 6 September 1998.

"More Food Being Grown to Eradicate Hunger and Malnutrition," New Light of Myanmar, 17 October 1997.

"Nation will Prosper as Living Standard of Peasants Rises," New Light of Myanmar, 11 August 1997.

"National entrepreneurs urged to do large-scale farming and build agro-based industries and take lead in market economy in future," New Light of Myanmar, 27 January 1999.

"National objectives remain unchanged despite emergence of new government," New Light of Myanmar, 16 December 1997.

"Nineteen entrepreneur groups to reclaim 203,000 acres in Ayeyawady Division," New Light of Myanmar, 19 January 1999.

"Peasantry Urged to Strive for Food Sufficiency and Contribute to Economic Progress," New Light of Myanmar, 2 March 1998.

"Plagued by misery," Bangkok Post, 5 January 1999.

"Rohingya said to be fleeing famine," The Nation, 11 May 1997.

"Secretary-1 urges Pado Aung San and brethren to concentrate on agriculture," New Light of Myanmar, 5 August 1998.

"Starvation and chaos threaten, opposition warns," Bangkok Post, 7 July 1998.

"Tasks, plans discussed for development of agriculture in Taninthayi Division," New Light of Myanmar, 16 January 1999.

"The Burma army and food troubles," Kwe Ka Lu, 20 November 1998. (Karen text)

"The Inside Perspective," Burma Issues, January 1997.

"The tribulations of Taungoo people," KIC News, November 1998. (Burmese text)

"Times of Rising Rice Prices," Dana, April 1997. (Burmese text)

"UN team reports severe damage in Burma floods," The Nation, 4 August 1997.

AHRC, First Submission to the People’s Tribunal on Food Scarcity and Militarization in Burma, 1 February 1999.

American Embassy Rangoon, Foreign Economic Trends Report: Burma, 1997, September 1997.

Amnesty International, Myanmar: Atrocities in Shan State, 15 April 1998.

Anonymous, Confidential Report on Trip to Burma; End of July– Beginning of August 1998.

Bertil Lintner, "The collapse of Burma’s economy," The Nation, 4 August 1997.

Bread for the World Institute, Eighth Annual Report on the State of World Hunger, 1997.

Bread for the World Institute, Hunger 1995: Causes of Hunger, 1995.

Bread for the World Institute, Hunger 1998: Hunger in a Global Economy, 1998.

Burma Ethnic Research Group and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Forgotten Victims of a Hidden War: Internally Displaced Karen in Burma, April 1998.

Burma Issues newsletters 1998-99.

Burma Issues videos, #17A/153 –154.

Burma Project, Burma: Country in Crisis, Open Society Institute, 1998.

Burma Socialist Programme Party, The System of Correlation of Man and His Environment: The Philosophy of the Burma Socialist Programme Party, Union of Burma, 1964, (3rd ed.).

C.A.C., "Bottom of the Barrel: The Destruction of Burma's Subsistence Economies," Burma Issues, September 1996.

Churches Commission on International Affairs, Militarism and Human Rights, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982.

Clement John, "Human Rights and Militarisation in Asia: Focus on Pakistan," Profit at Gunpoint, Singapore: Christian Conference of Asia-Youth, 1983.

Colonel Thein Swe, "Human Resource Development in Nation Building: The Role of the Armed Forces," in Myanmar Perspectives, The Government of the Union of Myanmar, July 1998.

Commission on Human Rights, "Report on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, prepared by the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Yozo Yokota, in accordance with Commission resolution 1994/85," United Nations Economic and Social Council, 12 January 1995.

Confidential Report to Burma Issues, July 1997. (Burmese text)

Confidential Report to Burma Issues on taxation and extortion of villages in Kyauk Kyi Township, Pegu Division, 17 October 1998. (Burmese text)

Confidential Report to Burma Issues: Summary of 1995 offensive in Papun Township, 1997. (Burmese text)

David Brunnstrom, "Economic decline not a cause of downfall – yet," Bangkok Post, 22 August, 1998.

Dr. Mya Maung, Country Paper of Union of Myanmar for Rural Development and Poverty Eradication, Department of Agricultural Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, The Government of the Union of Myanmar, October 1997.

Emily Zeamer, "Farming in the red: rural conditions in Burma," Burma Issues, December 1998.

Emily Zeamer, "Pacifying Burma's Swidden Farmers," Burma Issues, July 1998.

Fernando V. Cao, "Militarisation and the Third World," Philippine Collegion, No. 29, 13 November 1986.

Food and Agriculture Organisation, The State of Food and Agriculture 1996, 1997.

Government of the Union of Myanmar, "Characteristics of all land holdings 1992/93," 1993 Agricultural Census.

Government of the Union of Myanmar, Golden Myanmar Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1997.

Htoelwiwar, Reports to Burma Issues #02 & 03/99, 22 January 1999. (Confidential)

Human Rights Watch/Asia; Refugees International, Bangladesh/Burma – Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: The Search for a Lasting Solution, August 1997.

International Labour Organisation, "Forced Labour in Myanmar (Burma). Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed under article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Myanmar of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29). Geneva, 1998."

International Monetary Fund, Myanmar- Recent Economic Developments, Staff Country Report No. 97/31, April 1997.

Jim Zwick, "Militarism and Repression in the Philippines," Working Paper Series, Montreal: McGill University Developing Area Studies, 1982.

Karen Human Rights Group, Uncertainty, Fear and Flight: The Current Human Rights Situation in Eastern Pa’an District, 18 November 1998.

Karen Human Rights Group, Wholesale Destruction: The SLORC/SPDC Campaign to Obliterate All Hill Villages in Papun and Eastern Nyaunglebin Districts, Chiangmai: Nopburee Press, April 1998.

Martin Smith, Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity, London: Zed Books, 1991.

Mathews George Chunakara, The Militarisation of Politics and Society: Southeast Asian Experiences,Hong Kong: DAGA Press, 1994.

Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, The National Report to CFS on the Implementation of the World Food Summit Plan of Action Until End 1997 (Union of Myanmar), The Government of the Union of Myanmar, March 1998.

Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, Economic Development of Myanmar, The Government of the Union of Myanmar, March 1998.

Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, Review of Financial, Economic and Social Conditions, Myanmar, 1996-97, The Government of the Union of Myanmar, 1997.

Moe K. Tun, The 1997 Offensives, Burma Issues, December 1997.

Mon Information Service (Bangkok), Abuses Against Peasant Farmers in Burma, July 1998.

Mon Information Service, "Human Rights Report 1/97: The Forced Purchasing of Paddy in Mon State," May 1997.

Mya Maung, "The State of the Burmese Economy under Military Management," Human Rights Yearbook 1995, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, May 1996.

Mya Maung, Dr., Country Paper of Union of Myanmar for Rural Development and Poverty Eradication, Department of Agricultural Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, The Government of the Union of Myanmar, October 1997.

Myat Thein, "Economics of Farm Size and Land Policy in the Transition to Market Economy," 1998. (Unpublished article)

National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Human Rights Yearbook 1996: Burma July 1997.

Puchicho Lay, "Harsh weather and laws punish Burmese," The Nation, 27 July 1997.

Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, "Starvation Looms in Arakan," Newsletter, April 1997.

Saw Kwe Say, Report on the Conditions in Free Fire Zones of Mudraw and Mone Townships, 1996. (Confidential)

Saw Nyi Nyi, Burma Issues internal report, 1997. (Confidential, Burmese text)

Shan Human Rights Foundation, Dispossessed: Forced Relocation and Extrajudicial Killings in Shan State, April 1998.

Shwe Lu Maung, Burma: Nationalism and Ideology, Dhaka: University Press Ltd., 1989.

Thabye Khin, "Construction of the Ye-Dawei Railroad," Myanmar Perspectives, The Government of the Union of Myanmar, March 1998.

The Constitution of the Burma Socialist Programme Party: For the Transitional Period of Its Construction, adopted by the Revolutionary Council, 4 July 1962.

Tin Soe and Brian S. Fisher, "An Economic Analysis of Burmese Rice-price Policies," Myanmar Dilemmas and Options: The Challenge of Economic Transition in the 1990s, Mya Than and Joseph H.L. Tan, eds., (Singapore: ISEAS, 1990).

UN Centre for Human Settlements, Union Of Myanmar: Human Settlements Sector Review, Draft Report of Mission, 25 April to 16 May 1990.

UN Commission on Human Rights, "Report on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, prepared by the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Yozo Yokota, in accordance with Commission resolution 1994/85," 12 January 1995.

United States Department of Agriculture Attache, Report on trade and crop situation in Myanmar/Burma, American Embassy Rangoon, 31 March 1998. (Unofficial document.)

United States Department of Agriculture, "Burma's monthly rice trade and price update for November, 1998," GAIN Report #BM8016, 9 December 1998.

US Department of Agriculture, "Burma's monthly rice trade and price update for September, 1998," GAIN Report #BM8013, 8 October 1998.

Win Hlaing, Tenasserim Division: Thayet Chaung /Ye Pyu Townships Rural Conditions, 25 October 1998. (Confidential)


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