Incident Report: Forced labour in Thaton District, April 2012

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"The following incident report was written by a community member who has been trained by KHRG to monitor human rights abuses. The community member who wrote this report described an incident that occurred on April 24th 2012, where soldiers from BGF Battalion #1014 ordered the villagers of T---, W---, V--- and X---, in Hpa-an Township, Thaton District, to do forced labour on plantation land that they had confiscated for private companies, for three weeks without providing any pay, food or tools. The information was learned when the community member interviewed Saw B---, a 36 year-old chairman from W--- village. This report has been summarized along with three other Incident Reports received from this area in: ?Border Guard #1014 forced labour and forced recruitment, April to May 2012,” KHRG, May 2013."

Source/publisher: 

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

Date of Publication: 

2013-05-28

Date of entry: 

2013-06-18

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English

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pdf

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