EDITORIAL: "Regime grows fat as the people starve"...CRIME: Crimes in Karen State ["?If I join the DKBA, I will be helping them fight my own Karen people."]...TORTURE: "DKBA Makes Civilians pay"...DISPLACEMENT: "Uncertain Lives"...FOOD SECURITY: Food Shortage in Mu Traw - ["We cook rice porridge with bamboo shoots, we can?t afford nutritious food."]...EXTORTION: "DKBA: High Taxes and Extortion - ?They came to my house and pointed their guns at me, they demanded all my food and alcohol worth 2700 baht,” says Saw Wah."...ATTACK: "Attacks in Ler Doh Soe Township Megui-Tavoy District"...RAPE: "Systematic Rape of KarenWomen Continue Unpunished"...EDUCATION: "Giving Karen Woman a Chance The Karen Women?s Organization has started a special school to train young Karen women?s to be community leaders."...LOGGING: "TIMBER FOR SALE!"... "Hoping for a better future"