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Forced Migration Review (Issue 30, April 2008), Burma's displaced people

Children sit amidst the debris of their destroyed homes southwest of Yangon May 7, 2008 (Photo: Reuters/ Stringer, courtesy www.alertnet.org).

Displacement in Myanmar (Burma) 8 May 2008 IDMC does not monitor displacement caused by natural disasters such as Cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar (Burma) on 2 May. However, we published in February 2008 a summary of the situation of people forcibly displaced by conflict and human rights violations in the country. This update and a selected range of new reports and news articles on the humanitarian crisis there can be accessed at our country page.

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 24 April 2008
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• 10 April 2008
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Special Country Reports

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Publications

• A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories from Abkhazia and South Ossetia (April 2008)
  A Heavy Burden, published in Georgian, Russian and English brings together 13 accounts from Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.... more
• Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2007 (April 2008)
  Yearly report on major global and regional developments in the field of internal displacement.... more
• Activity Report 2007 (April 2008)
  The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's (IDMC) Activity Report covering the year 2007.... more