This month?s newsletter contains mainly reports on various types of forced labour, and a few cases of beating and extortion, systematically and randomly imposed upon the people by the Burmese military authorities and their cronies in Shan State, that took place during the second half of 2011)..... Commentary: Forced Labour... Contents... Themes & Places of Violations reported in this issue... Acronyms... Map... Situation of forced portering... Villagers forced to serve as porters, village leader beaten, livestock extorted, in Murng-Kerng... Routine forced portering in Murng-Paeng... Random forced portering in Kun-Hing... Mass forced portering in Kae-See... Situation of forced labour in building and maintaining infrastructure... Villagers forced to build fences around military camp in Nam-Zang... Mass forced labour used in clearing the sides of roads in Lai-Kha Villagers forced to fix roads as punishment in Lai-Kha Routine forced labour in Murng-Pan Mass forced labour used in maintaining military camp in Murng-Ton Mass forced labour in building and maintaining military camp in Murng-Nai Mass forced labour used in clearing the sides of roads in Murng-Ton