The PRAD Report

As we reported in this post, mission team leader Margaret Purvis presented Eric John, the United States Ambassador to Thailand, with a copy of a report prepared by Partners Relief & Development, offering up-to-date evidence of human rights violations in Burma; and information about the plight of Karen Internally Displaced People (IDPs).

"Burma’s ruling military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), is continuing to perpetrate gross violations of human rights in all parts of the country," the report states from the very begining. "In addition to the suppression of democracy, the continued detention of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the imprisonment of more than 1,100 prisoners of conscience, and the forcible conscription of child soldiers, the Burma Army is continuing to terrorise the ethnic nationality groups. In Karen State, in the past year more than 25,000 civilians have been displaced in the worst offensive by the regime in almost a decade."

You can read the complete report from Partners, as a Word document or in a PDF format. By the way, we are sharing this report with the permission and encouragement of Partners Relief & Development. Thanks to Eric at Fire Ant Gazette for his assistance in making these reports available.