|
|
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Acquitted
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9,512 |
|
[8th of 30]
|
|
Adults prosecuted
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16,129 |
|
[20th of 28]
|
|
Assaults
|
8,059 |
|
[26th of 49]
|
|
Burglaries
|
4 |
|
[37th of 38]
|
|
Car thefts
|
27 |
|
[46th of 46]
|
|
Convicted
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288,500 |
|
[6th of 34]
|
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Drug offences
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2,867 per 100,000 people |
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[26th of 46]
|
Illicit drugs
remains world's second-largest producer of illicit opium with an estimated production in 2008 of 340 metric tons, an increase of 26%, and cultivation in 2008 was 22,500 hectares, a 4% increase from 2007; production in the United Wa State Army's areas of greatest control remains low; Shan state is the source of 94% of poppy cultivation; lack of government will to take on major narcotrafficking groups and lack of serious commitment against money laundering continues to hinder the overall antidrug effort; major source of methamphetamine and heroin for regional consumption; currently under Financial Action Task Force countermeasures due to continued failure to address its inadequate money-laundering controls |
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Jails
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40 |
|
[29th of 80]
|
|
Manslaughters
|
692 |
|
[7th of 42]
|
|
Murders
|
92 |
|
[37th of 49]
|
|
Murders with firearms
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27 |
|
[25th of 36]
|
|
Police
|
68,959 |
|
[10th of 47]
|
|
Prisoners
|
32,797 prisoners |
|
[18th of 168]
|
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Rapes
|
223 |
|
[33rd of 50]
|
|
Robberies
|
4 |
|
[47th of 47]
|
|
Sentence Length
|
16,616 |
|
[2nd of 21]
|
|
Total crimes
|
18,301 |
|
[43rd of 50]
|
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Burma is a source country for women, children, and men trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; Burmese women and children are trafficked to East and Southeast Asia for commercial sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and forced labor; Burmese children are subjected to conditions of forced labor in Thailand as hawkers, beggars, and for work in shops, agriculture, fish processing, and small-scale industries; women are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to Malaysia and China; some trafficking victims transit Burma from Bangladesh to Malaysia and from China to Thailand; internal trafficking occurs primarily from villages to urban centers and economic hubs for labor in industrial zones, agricultural estates, and commercial sexual exploitation; military and civilian officials continue to use a significant amount of forced labor; ethnic insurgent groups also used compulsory labor of adults and unlawful recruitment of children; the military junta's gross economic mismanagement, human rights abuses, and its policy of using forced labor are the top causal factors for Burma's significant trafficking problem |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Burma does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; military and civilian officials remain directly involved in significant acts of forced labor and unlawful conscription of child soldiers |
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SOURCES: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Burma, Union of Burma, Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar), Myanma Naingngandaw, burma (myanmar), myanmar (burma), myanmar
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