Human Rights in Myanmar

Human rights in Myanmar or Burma has  been  a  matter  of  grave concern for the human rights organizations as well as international communities. A general agreement is there that the military authority in Burma is the most abusive and repressive regimes in the world. General Ne Win was the leader of 1962 coup. He founded a totalitarian government.

 

Ne Win was a fan of Stalin and Marx. He used to brutally crush the opposition. The Burmese Way to Socialism which was popularly known as the Burmese Road to Socialism always included ideas such as isolationism, large scale nationalization, a police state and also ethnic cleansing. In Burma the brutally crushed 8888 Uprising forced the regime to reform a little. Today’s the State Peace and Development Council is still in power in Burma.

 

The military government was really worst and different human rights organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have reported on human rights abuses by the military government in Burma. It was reported that in Burma there was not even an independent judiciary present in the country. The military government restrains Internet access by software-based censorship. And this action of the military limits the material citizens the accession of getting on-line.

 

Some of the bad factors were very common such as human trafficking, forced labour and child labour. The activities were really brutal. The military is also infamous for rampant use of sexual violence. They use it as an instrument of control. Systematic rapes and demanding sex slaves for military as porters was very common. In exile, a strong women’s pro-democracy motion has formed and it occurred mainly along in Chiang Mai and the Thai border. With a view to fight with women’s human rights issues, a arising international movement is there.