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Kachin State
Human Rights Leaders Advice to Washington on Burma: ‘Go Slow’
As the United States supports Burma on its way to democracy, human rights groups say lifted sanctions should be tied to concrete progress, and the U.S. must exercise cautious optimism.
Burma’s Kachin People in Crisis
With the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Burma, resource-rich Kachin State is an especially lucrative draw for the Burmese military. Refugees are denied proper access to foreign aid.
Burmese Rights Group Wants UN to Address ‘War Crimes’
A prominent Burma rights group is calling on the United Nations Security Council to address human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Burmese army in recent violence in Kachin State.
