News: (1) VPDC chairmen reluctant to collect student distinction taxes; (2) Mon party?s campaign dogged by government surveillance... Commentary: Ceasefire Concern, Security tightened in Gas Pipeline Areas... Report: ?They think we are not human?: Strategic abuses threaten local economy:- Summary This month the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) documents the perpetuation of human rights violations by the State Peace and Development Council?s (SPDC?s) army units that are reminiscent of the previous anti-insurgent ?4-cuts? policy. Despite the supposed discontinuation of these systematized abuses, research clearly indicates that these violations are continually put in use to target ethnic groups located in the southern part of Mon State and northern part of Tenasserin Division. Starting in early May 2010 for over a two and a half month period, the four SPDC battalions LIB No. 282, No. 273, No. 299, IB No. 31, ordered travel restrictions against villages in northern Tenaserim Division and Southern Mon state on four separate occasions. In addition, HURFOM has confirmed that in four cases SPDC forces also defined restricted boundaries outside of villages in which villagers had to relocate their homes. Governmental army units have conducted a campaign of travel restrictions, arbitrary taxation, forced labor and forced relocation. These human rights violations threaten the local economy, security and livelihood of the residents in a specific attempt to suppress the influence and capacity of local insurgent armed groups based in the area. The consequences of these targeted violations are that villagers and owners of farms, plantations, and orchards have been deliberately undermined and had their financial stability disrupted, subsequently leaving famers and plantation owners financially crippled, and at times forced to move to more stable regions of Mon State...Background...Methodology...Targeted Abuses: Travel restrictions and work impact...Theft of crops from perennial plantations and fruit orchards...Forced Labor...Forced Relocation...Conclusion