KNU Mergui-Tavoy District - Monthly Human Rights Situation Report , December 2002,

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EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLING: "Burmese troops shot dead a villager without any question in Kaw Htee Lor village..."..... FORCED LABOUR: "In the beginning of October 2002, the Burmese troops taking security in the east of Tavoy forced the local villagers in Kamoethway and Paw Klo areas to the east of Tavoy, Tenasserim division, to reconstruct the damaged bridges on the military transporting route to the Burma-Thai border..."..... LOOTING: "Since the beginning of October, the Commander of No.8 Operation Commanding HQ, which based in Myitta village in the east of Tavoy, Tenasserim division, ordered his troops who took security in Kamoethway area to search and arrest all of the illegal cattle traders and confiscate their cattle..."..... EXTORTION: "Burmese troops taking security to Kamoethway area in the east of Tavoy, Tenasserim division, demanded betel nut tax from the local villagers..."..... LAND CONFISCATION: The Burmese troops forcibly relocated more than forty houses at a place between Taung Tho Lon and Heinda Chaung, in the east of Tavoy, Tenasserim division, to construct a new artillery battalion..."

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Mergui-Tavoy District Information Department, Karen National Union (Tenasserim Division)

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2002-12-00

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2003-06-03

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