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Human Rights Watch Statement: Impacts of Covid-19 on Internally Displaced People in Myanmar
Statement of Manny Maung, Myanmar Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Subcommittee on International Human Rights
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development
December 10, 2020
Study of the Impacts of Covid-19 on Internally Displaced People in Myanmar
Thank you to the Chairperson and Honorable Members of Parliament for inviting me to appear before this Committee to discuss the impacts of Covid-19 on internally displaced people in Myanmar. My name is Manny Maung and I am the Myanmar Researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Decades of conflict have resulted in over 360,000 internally displaced peoples across the country. They are mainly members of ethnic minority communities spread across northern Myanmar, in Kachin and Shan States; in western Rakhine State; and in the southeast near the Myanmar-Thai border. Renewed conflict has created fresh displacemen ....

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