News: (1) SPDC Followers are Convincing Pro-Government Groups in Mon State; (2) Villagers in Mon State are stuck with extortion imposed by Light Infantry Battalion No.31; (3) Burmese Soldiers commandeer villagers? motorbikes in Mon State; (4) Police extort money from arrested young people in the Mon village; (5) SPDC Followers Earn Illegal Money with Different Method in Mon State; (6) Villagers in Mudon Township are being forced to grow castor-oil plants... Commentary: International Community Must Ensure for Democratization in Burma... Personal Accounts: Meeting with newly arrived IDP family... Report: Endless Abuses and the Creation of Poverty in Southern Mon State:- I. Summary: This report focuses on the updated situation about the ongoing Human Rights abuses committed by the SPDC and its armed forces, troops of Burmese Army, that creates the poverty and unsustainable life of the rural civilians in southern Mon State. Most of the abuses which described in this report were always happening in the rural areas under the control of this ruling SPDC. The major abuses are which covered in this report are forced relocation, forced labour, looting, confiscation of land and properties which artificially create poverty and hunger to population in rural areas of southern Mon State; II. Geographical analysis on Southern Mon State; III. Looting by the Burmese battalions; IV. Torture and inhumane treatment; V. On going abuses: Movement restriction and relocation; VI. Confiscation/ destruction of property/Taxation; VII. Population displacement.