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KUKI WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION (KWHRO)

BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Following the democracy uprising of 08.08.88, the Burmese military seized back power in a coup d’état on 18th September, 1988, cracking down even further on all civil liberties. Thus followed further years of inhuman suffering for common people in Burma. Student democracy activists and the common people who supported them were severely dealt with and many of them were either killed, jailed, tortured or raped.

This brutality of the junta upon civilians has forced many of them to take refugee in neighboring countries such as Thailand, India and Bangladesh where they are carrying out activities aimed at ending military rule and restoring democracy in the country.

One of the peoples severely affected by military rule are the Kukis, who inhabit  the Indo-Burma border area, along the Upper Chindwin, in Sagaing division. Having no state of their own and living under direct central rule, they have been subject to incessant torture, and rampant violation of their basic human rights on the pretext of sympathizing with democracy activists or insurgents. Over and above this, they have been charged of being foreigners and their citizenship put into question.

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