BANGKOK (Reuters) - Years of civil war and abuse of ethnic minorities in eastern Myanmar by the ruling military junta have left the region more like the grimmest corners of Africa or Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, a new report said on Thursday.
Describing the jungle conflict zones abutting the Thai border as the former Burma's "heart of darkness", Thai senator Jon Ungphakorn said the findings provided ample evidence to support the junta's referral to the United Nations Security Council.