SLORC has sent in thousands of troops to secure the pipeline route and the foreigners themselves, and these troops are making life much harder for villagers in the area through forced labour and extortion. Furthermore,villagers are now being used as forced labour to clear the pipeline route itself and build supply roads for pipeline supplies. Though the oil companies are hiring labour, SLORC is using forced labour wherever possible with or without the knowledge of the companies, who simply have too few employees in the area to see what is going on. The villagers see it very well, and we have interviewed several of them who describe it. This report consists of 3 parts: a summary of the current situation of the pipeline project, interviews with villagers who have recently fled the area, and an Annex consisting of a TOTAL letter about the project (translated from French) and a map of the area.