For over five decades, ongoing conflict and military misrule in Burma's ethnic minority border regions have destroyed the fabric of civil society, impoverished and uprooted civilians and their communities, and damaged health and education systems [ 24].
Beyond these restrictions, ongoing forced displacement, forced labor, and other human rights violations continue to take their toll especially on the health status of ethnic minority border populations[ 8].
Mark Rice-Oxley, a foreign news editor who has lived and worked in Moscow, said: "Ukraine reminds us that all three Baltic states have sizable Russian minorities, substantial borders with Russian territory and important trade links with the post-Soviet space.
The country has a long history of internal conflict, especially between the government and ethnic minorities in border areas seeking greater autonomy.
The population is 90percentt Slovene, and the Italian and Hungarian minorities in border areas have their own seats in Parliament and the right to bilingual education and the use of their own languages in dealings with government.
Enhancing the study of ethnic minorities and border areas became necessary for resistance and national salvation.
Anthropology was no longer defined as the study of exotic "barbarians" in the West, but as the study of ethnic minorities of border areas in China Maa, 1947).
The studies included in this analysis were performed from 1991 through 2005 at camps for displaced persons of the Karen ethnic minority and border clinics that served mainly Karen and Burmese migrant workers along the northwestern border of Thailand.
Scriptwriters, directors, broadcasters and anchors will also be sent to work and live for at least 30 days "in ethnic minority and border areas, and areas that made major contributions to the country's victory in the revolutionary war", Xinhua added.
Some diplomats have argued that a new state should not be recognized unless there is reason to believe that it will be democratic and will protect the minorities within its borders.
